Top Dawg Cleared of Doxxing Claim Amid Ugly Sexual Harassment Lawsuit — Jury Trial Tentatively Scheduled for May 2027

In the middle of an unwanted sexual advances and breach of agreement suit submitted by PR expert Linda Luna, Top Dawg Entertainment and numerous of its higher-ups have actually formally beaten a doxxing claim.

That’s according to a brand-new choice from the California Court of Appeal for the Second District, which reversed a lower-court order rejecting the offenders ‘movement to strike. Those offenders are Top Dawg itself in addition to primary marketing officer Brandon Tiffith, president Anthony Tiffith Jr., and film/TV supervisor David Harrell; all have actually rejected the “unwarranted” claims.

Undoubtedly, there’s a lot going on in the fit, which Luna and a specific called Ayah Altayri submitted anonymously in December 2024. For a bit of fast background, Luna began managing PR and marketing for the hip-hop label in 2019, per the action.

Leading Dawg apparently made “late or partial payments” for services rendered “regardless of her duplicated demands, in composing, for timely payment.” There’s a supposed failure to compensate her for numerous expenditures– consisting of those Luna apparently sustained after permitting a non-party Top Dawg artist to move into her home at Tiffith Jr.’s demand.

Owing to “monetary restrictions,” Tiffith Jr. is stated to have actually provided Luna a 10% management cost from this artist, who accepted the terms and, per the text, in 2023 tattooed a multimillion-dollar Warner Records offer.

The artist supposedly informed Luna to look for the 10% management share from Top Dawg, which apparently “never ever paid” the cost.

Furthermore, the match implicates Tiffith Jr. in addition to Brandon Tiffith of “sexual misbehavior towards” Luna. Offender Harrell presumably “made unconsented sexual advances towards” the other complainant, who, as a good friend of the unnamed artist’s, supposedly got space and board in exchange for offering “support” to the artist.

Include numerous screen-capped text, what Luna acknowledges was “a shared, consensual kiss” with Tiffith Jr. in 2019, and a supposed recording of a heated 2023 conference worrying numerous of these accusations, and you’re entrusted to a case that’s finest chosen by a jury.

Ahead of a set up May 2027 trial, nevertheless, Top Dawg has actually beaten the at first pointed out doxxing claim.

The fit was submitted anonymously, as highlighted, the offenders when shooting back versus the “produced claims” (and a press declaration from the complainants) in early 2025 called Luna and Altayri.

Consequently, Luna presumably “gotten several harassing messages from 3rd parties” and presumably lost customers; a changed grievance for that reason included a doxxing count, and the high court, in turning down a movement to strike, set the phase for an appeal.

Now, the doxxing claim disappears. As figured out by the appellate court, “missing a particular statutory permission, a complainant does not have an outright right to take legal action against anonymously.”

Litigants “might continue anonymously just after they submit a movement with the trial court to discover an overriding interest supports their usage of pseudonyms.” As Luna and Altayri “never ever submitted such a movement,” Top Dawg “breached no court order or guideline when it divulged” their names.

“We are, naturally, conscious the nature of Plaintiffs’ claims, and they might have had a strong argument to stay confidential,” the justices continued. “But it was incumbent on Plaintiffs to provide their demand to the high court as quickly as possible. Missing filing such a movement or a statutory basis, they just had no ‘ideal’ to stay confidential while taking legal action against in court.”

With that, all eyes are on the staying claims; discovery is continuous ahead of the aforementioned May 2027 trial, and when it concerns the doxxing sub-dispute, Top Dawg is “entitled to expenses on appeal.”