LOS ANGELES — A woman who claimed she was drugged and raped by Snoop Dogg and several of his associates after a taping of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” has dropped the lawsuit she filed against them, a court clerk confirmed Tuesday.
According to court records, Kylie Bell’s attorney filed a request with the court last Wednesday to dismiss the suit with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.
Plaintiffs often will drop a lawsuit if a settlement agreement has been reached between the parties, but it was not immediately apparent if that had occurred.
Messages left with Perry Wander, Bell’s attorney, and the Long Beach-born rapper’s publicist and talent manager were not immediately returned.
The complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in January on Bell’s behalf alleged she applied and removed Snoop Dogg’s makeup for guest host appearances on Kimmel’s talk show in January 2003.
In her suit, the makeup artist claimed one of the entertainer’s associates handed her a small cup of champagne following one of the tapings at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood and encouraged her to drink.
Bell began to feel drugged and “could not move very well,” according to her suit. She claimed she was then raped and sexually assaulted by Snoop Dogg and several others in his entourage.
As a result, she claims she was unable to work and had used up all of her savings by late May 2003.
Bell shared an Emmy with seven other designers for the makeup on HBO’s “Six Feet Under,” according to her attorney.
The month before Bell filed her lawsuit, Snoop Dogg filed a lawsuit against a woman listed only as “Jane Doe,” claiming she was trying to extort $5 million from him for an alleged assault at a performance in 2003.
The two cases were handled together by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Haley J. Fromholz.
In the rapper’s suit, he denied any involvement in the alleged assault and claimed “Jane Doe” had threatened to tell reporters that he assaulted her and to sell her story to the National Enquirer and shop it for a book deal.
His court papers state that he “reluctantly made minor payments to Jane Doe for a limited period of time in the perhaps naive hope that she would drop” her allegations.
Fromholz’s court clerk said Snoop Dogg’s attorneys also have filed papers requesting a dismissal of that case, but the the request has not yet been processed by the court.
The entertainer’s attorney, Bert Deixler, confirmed that papers requesting dismissals had been filed by both sides, but declined to comment further.
