San Diego DJ, L.A. Engineer Settle His Lawsuit Alleging She Defamed Him on Social Media

A San Diego-based DJ and producer and a lady he sued, alleging she falsely tweeted that he sexually assaulted her, have settled his lawsuit.

Legal professionals for Geoffrey Boss, often known as STUCA and Elestu, and Madyson “Mady” Ward, introduced the accord throughout a listening to Friday earlier than Santa Monica Superior Court docket Choose Mark H. Epstein. No phrases have been divulged.

Boss claimed that falsely accused him after he spurned her efforts to renew their romantic relationship. Ward, nevertheless, claims she solely needed a platonic relationship and needed to struggle off undesirable advances from Boss.

In their very own courtroom papers, attorneys for Ward stated the defendant is a software program engineer who lived in Los Angeles and have become a fan of digital dance music in 2019.

After assembly Boss, Ward was the recipient of undesirable advances, together with being forcibly kissed by him, in response to courtroom papers filed by her attorneys. She additionally claims he had panic assaults when she objected to his want for an unique relationship.

“Whereas she was nonetheless anxious concerning the backlash she knew she would expertise from talking out, she didn’t need different ladies to undergo what she went by way of and she or he felt validated when a number of ladies reached out to thank her for talking up and shared their very own comparable experiences with Boss,” Ward’s attorneys wrote.

Boss tells a unique story.

The DJ introduced the defamation criticism final Sept. 21, looking for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and a courtroom order directing Ward to take away any such statements that stay on-line.

Boss and Ward met in 2021 on the social media, developed a friendship, received collectively in individual in March of that yr and shortly started an amorous relationship, the swimsuit acknowledged. Ward by no means advised Boss that she didn’t want to be intimate with the plaintiff earlier than, throughout or after their first such encounter.

“In actual fact, Ward at instances initiated the intimate and sexual actions with Boss,” in response to the swimsuit.

Ward additionally despatched Boss sexually charged textual content messages after they engaged in sexual exercise, the swimsuit acknowledged.

Nonetheless, final Could, a good friend and colleague of Boss advised the plaintiff that he additionally had been having intercourse with Ward, the swimsuit acknowledged. Ward initially denied having a relationship with the good friend, however in the end confessed to ongoing relations with the opposite man after Boss confronted her.

Ward additionally acknowledged having intercourse with one other member of Boss’ skilled circle, in response to the swimsuit. Consequently, Boss ended his intimate relationship along with her and advised her they may nonetheless be pals.

Over the following two weeks, Ward sought to revive the intimate relationship with Boss, however he insisted on remaining platonic, the swimsuit acknowledged. By the tip of final Could, after Boss had repeatedly rejected Ward’s efforts to rekindle their romance, her demeanor towards Boss grew to become erratic and she or he accused him of enjoying video games along with her.

Boss stopped speaking along with her after she gave his cellphone quantity final June to a good friend of hers he didn’t know, who known as the plaintiff, his attorneys wrote.

About two months later, Ward tweeted, “Earlier this yr, I used to be sexually assaulted by Geoff Boss –in any other case often called @stucamusic/@elestumusic,” adopted by an extended assertion that started, “At the moment I’m coming ahead to share how I used to be sexually assaulted by Stuca/Elestu/Geoff Boss,” the swimsuit acknowledged.

“Opposite to the tweet and the assertion, Ward consented to all intimate and sexual exercise between Boss and Ward and at instances expressly solicited intimate and sexual exercise,” the swimsuit acknowledged.

The allegedly defamatory statements have precipitated Boss disgrace and embarrassment in addition to misplaced revenue after his invites to carry out at a number of live shows and festivals have been rescinded, in response to the swimsuit. He additionally has misplaced quite a few followers, the swimsuit alleged.

Boss, from the @stucamusic account, beforehand lively on Twitter, has not posted since issuing an Aug. 17 denial of Ward’s accusations. Within the put up, he known as it “devastating that somebody would fabricate this situation.”

– Metropolis Information Service