Billy Ray Cyrus responded to a woman’s lawsuit claiming she’s his daughter Miley Cyrus’ biological mother, calling the allegations “false and absurd.”
A woman named Jayme Lee alleged that she gave birth to Miley at 12 years old in a lawsuit she filed in May, obtained by the Daily Mail. Lee claimed she entered into a “private adoption agreement’ with Billy Ray and Miley’s mother, Tish Cyrus, but was caused “severe emotional distress” when Billy Ray allegedly “misrepresented the circumstances” of the alleged adoption.
She claimed their alleged adoption agreement included that she would get to name Miley and work as her nanny and piano teacher.
Lee accused Billy Ray and Tish of “breach of contract, fraud and misrepresentation, intentional inflection of emotional distress and unlawful interference with parental rights.”
According to the outlet, Lee also claimed Billy Ray and Tish cut off all contact with her and “threatened [her] with police action” after Miley was born in her amended filing in June.
Lee wanted a supervised DNA maternity and paternity testing of Miley and her parents, and to revisit the legality of the alleged adoption pending results. But her request for a trial was denied by a judge in October.
Billy Ray filed a motion on Nov. 20 to dismiss all of Lee’s claims. The country star, 64, accused Lee of filing the lawsuit for the “purposes of harassing” him and his family, the Daily Mail reported.
He also filed a response on Dec. 1 opposing Lee’s amended complaint, and said he had only recently become aware of the lawsuit.
His attorney told the outlet that Lee’s lawsuit was dismissed on Dec. 5.
“The Court dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice this morning and awarded Mr Cyrus the recovery of his reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees and costs,” the statement reads.
Reps for Billy Ray, Tish and Miley didn’t immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Billy Ray and Tish, 58, share three children together: Miley, 33, Braison, 31, and Noah, 25. He also adopted her children Brandi, 38, and Trace, 36, from her previous marriage to Baxter Neal Helson.
Billy Ray and Tish split in 2022 after nearly 28 years of marriage.
He recently congratulated Miley on her engagement to musician Maxx Morando, after years of being estranged from his daughter.
Billy Ray shared on Instagram, “So happy you and MaxxAgazillion found each other!!!! Congratulations! Happy to see you both so happy!!! love Dad.”
