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Singer Songwriter FKA twig I agreed to a settlement with the actor Shia Labeouf Her lawyers say about a long-term lawsuit against her sexual assault.
37-year-old English singerHer real name is Talia Debrett Burnett, who filed a request in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday to dismiss her case against her ex-boyfriend on prejudice.
“With a commitment to moving forward on a constructive path, we have agreed to settle the case from the court,” FKA Twigs and Labeouf said in a joint statement issued by the lawyers on Tuesday.
“We wish each other’s personal happiness, professional success and peace in the future.” Details of the settlement remain confidential.
FKA Twigs sued Labeouf in 2020 for the purposeful distress of sexual assault, assault and intentional emotional distress.
The pair met in 2018 when FKA Twigs appeared in “Honey Boy,” an autobiography about Labeouf’s childhood upbringing as a child actor.
After the initial “attractive attack,” the relationship turned into a “living nightmare” with a “continued flow of oral and emotional abuse,” the lawsuit said.
FKA Twigs said the actor had isolated her from her friends and family.
The lawsuit also detailed allegations of physical violence in 2019, including a case in which “Labeouf forced Talia to denounce her car and then strangled her.”
The singer also accused Labeouf of intentionally inflicting her a sexually infected illness.
“Shia LaBeouf hurts the women he uses them. He abuses them both physically and mentally,” the lawsuit reads.
“I have abused everyone around me for years,” Labeouf said in an email to the New York Times shortly after the lawsuit was filed.
“I have a history that hurts those closest to me. I am ashamed of that history and I am sorry to those who have hurt me.”
He later denied all charges of misconduct against the FKA twig.
In 2024, Labeouf revealed that FKA Twigs was seeking $10 million in damages, the Guardian reported. His legal team argued that the numbers were excessive, claiming that the singer “appears to have increased her profile after years of her relationship with Shiites and her career seemed to flourish.”
“My client was led to believe that Labeouf is on the path to take responsibility and working the program, but it is clear that he intends his pattern of continuing to abuse his victims,” a lawyer for FKA Twigs responded, according to the Guardian.
The lawsuit has been dragged out for several years and was originally scheduled to go to trial last year before it was postponed to September 2025.
Additional sources •AP