Rolling Stone reports that Danny Elfman settled with musician and composer Nomi Abadi for $830,000 over sexual harassment allegations five years ago. Elfman is now being sued by Abadi; Rolling Stone viewed the breach of contract suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior court on Wednesday. It accuses Elfman of not paying two $42,500 installments towards the $830,000 total, in July of 2019 and 2021.
In a 2017 police report, viewed by Rolling Stone, Abadi accused Elfman of exposing himself and masturbating in front of her without her consent multiple times. Elfman denied the allegations in a statement to Rolling Stone, telling them through his attorney that she’d “attempted to pursue Elfman romantically and retaliated against him after he spurned her advances.”
Elfman’s statement reads:
How do I respond to accusations so serious that being innocent is not a valid defense? It is excruciating to consider that a 50-year career may be destroyed in one news cycle as a result of vicious and wholly false allegations about sexual misconduct. Ms. Abadi’s allegations are simply not true. I allowed someone to get close to me without knowing that I was her “childhood crush” and that her intention was to break up my marriage and replace my wife. When this person realized that I wanted distance from her, she made it clear that I would pay for having rejected her. I allowed an ill-advised friendship to have far-reaching consequences, and that error in judgment is entirely my fault. I have done nothing indecent or wrong, and my lawyers stand ready to prove with voluminous evidence that these accusations are false. This is the last I will say on this subject.
Abadi declined to comment to Rolling Stone for their article, but a statement from her attorney reads, “It is ironic that Mr. Elfman’s current statements are directly contrary to the position he maintained in the underlying dispute and to the evidentiary record.”