A woman who won a court ruling holding Jimmie Allen liable for sexually assaulting and secretly filming her in a Las Vegas hotel room is now asking a judge to award her nearly $1.8 million in damages, saying the incident left her “traumatized” and “violated.”
Last month, a Tennessee federal judge hit Allen, a once-rising country music star, with a so-called default judgment in the lawsuit, ruling that he had repeatedly flouted court orders and missed key deadlines — thus forfeiting his right to defend himself.
In a court filing on Monday (Sept. 8), her lawyers now say Allen should pay his victim (Jane Doe) $1.8 million in damages under that judgment — including $250,000 for her emotional distress, $340,000 to pay for future health treatment and $1.19 million in punitive damages.
“Defendants’ predatory conduct … is not the kind of conduct tolerated in a civilized and resulted in serious emotional and psychological injury to plaintiff,” Doe’s lawyers wrote.
The case is one of two civil sexual assault lawsuits brought against Allen in 2023, derailing the singer’s promising career after a run of No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. He was subsequently dropped by his label, BBR Music Group, as well as his booking agency, publicist and management company.
The first lawsuit accused Allen of sexually harassing and abusing his day-to-day manager over a period of 18 months from 2020 and 2022. Allen denied the claims and countersued his ex-manager for defamation; that case was settled in 2024.
The second lawsuit — the one at issue in Monday’s filing — was filed by an unnamed woman who says she met Allen on a flight to Nashville in May 2022 and began to regularly text and FaceTime with the singer.
After meeting up with Allen in Las Vegas, the woman says the two had consensual sex — but that Allen ejaculated inside her without a condom despite her explicit protests. She says she later discovered that he had surreptitiously set up his cellphone to record the entire encounter without her knowledge.
The singer denied the claims, saying she consented to the video recording. But things didn’t go so smoothly in court, with the singer cycling through lawyers and blowing past deadlines for producing evidence and sitting for a deposition.
Last month, after the latest procedural misstep, Judge Aleta A. Trauger simply ruled against Allen, holding him liable by default for battery, assault, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress. That ruling left undecided how much he must pay in damages.
At the time, a new lawyer for Allen blamed the outcome on Allen’s old attorneys and vowed to “take immediate action to set aside this judgment.” But that motion was never filed, and that same lawyer did not return a request for comment. A spokesperson for Allen told Billboard on Monday that they were “currently on hiatus with this client.”
In the new filing seeking damages, Allen’s accuser said she had suffered severe harm from the incident, including post-traumatic stress disorder and “intense distrust in interpersonal relationships.”
“Following the traumatic incident in Las Vegas, changes to plaintiff’s mental health were quickly observed, including reverting to an eating disorder and turning to alcohol abuse,” her lawyers wrote. “Plaintiff’s friends observed that Plaintiff was ‘traumatized’ and ‘violated’ by the incident.”