Dr. Luke Sues Kesha’s Mom

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Since the beginning of the Kesha/Dr. Luke situation, the producer has asserted that Kesha’s lawsuit was engineered by her mother, Pebe Sebert, as a way to get the pop singer out of her contract. Dr. Luke has already filed a defamation suit against Kesha, and now, according to TMZ, he has also filed a lawsuit against her mother, “claiming she orchestrated a smear campaign of sexual lies against him and extorted him to boot.” The lawsuit seems to be based around the previously revealed fact that Kesha swore under oath that she had never had an “intimate relationship” or been given roofies by the producer. Dr. Luke is seeking “more than $75,000 in compensatory damages and punitive damages on top of that.”