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\n\tFormer Def Jam<\/a> President Kevin Liles says the sexual assault allegations leveled against him by a Jane Doe plaintiff <\/a>are \u201cpatently false\u201d and asked the court for permission to file a motion to permanently dismiss the woman\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a letter to a federal judge filed Tuesday, Liles\u2019 lawyer says the Jane Doe claims Liles sexually harassed and assaulted her between 2000 and 2002, but \u201coffers zero factual bases for her salacious allegations.\u201d The lawyer says the woman\u2019s complaint includes only \u201cthreadbare assertions\u201d without describing what Liles purportedly said to her in Universal Music Group\u2019s offices more than 20 years ago or what he did when she purportedly rebuffed his advances.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cPlaintiff offers no detail whatsoever regarding the nature of the purported assault she suffered,\u201d Liles\u2019 lawyer Krystal C. Durham says in the letter obtained by Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cShe alleges that at unspecified times, and in unspecified locations, during a two-year window \u2013 again, over twenty years ago \u2013 Mr. Liles sexually harassed and assault her. She fails, however, to explain when these purported acts occurred, where in UMG\u2019s offices they occurred, identify a single person she reported this information to, or who was present.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe lawyer claims the complaint is too deficient to survive because the woman further failed to give a date, location, or context for her \u201cserious\u201d allegation that Liles forced himself on her. \u201cShe, again, provides no detail regarding the purported event and submits only the bare conclusion that Mr. Liles\u2019s alleged conduct amounted to rape and sexual assault,\u201d the lawyer wrote, claiming the Jane Doe \u201cneither reported to nor worked for\u201d Liles.<\/p>\n \n\tDurham wrote that Liles\u2019 proposed motion to dismiss also would challenge the Jane Doe\u2019s right to file her lawsuit under the two-year lookback window provided by New York City\u2019s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law. Other defendants in similar cases have likewise challenged the GMVL, claiming New York\u2019s statewide Adult Survivors Act pre-empted any overlapping local laws and closed the revival window for good on any claims throughout the state when it expired in November 2023. Many lawsuits have survived similar challenges to the GMVL\u2019s revival window, but the issue of preemption is now the subject of at least one appeal in the Second Circuit.<\/p>\n