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\n\tLawyers for DJ and producer Diplo<\/a> announced that they\u2019ve reached a global \u201cresolution in principle\u201d on Monday to end his tangled legal dispute with Shelly Auguste, a woman he had a sexual relationship with in 2019.<\/p>\n \n\tThe last-minute deal averted a trial set to begin next Monday. If the trial had proceeded, it would have consolidated Diplo\u2019s stalking, trespassing and revenge porn claims against Auguste with her dueling claims of sexual battery and assault<\/a> filed against the musician.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe have a resolution in principle. We\u2019re probably days, not weeks, away from getting it signed. There are one or two paragraphs to kind of tweak. We sent [revisions] over the weekend,\u201d Diplo\u2019s lawyer Brian Elliot Turnauer told the court.<\/p>\n \n\tWhen Judge Rolf M. Treu asked if Auguste\u2019s lawyer, Kimberly Casper, agreed with the settlement claim, Casper responded that she did. Judge Treu then vacated the trial date and said the parties should return next Monday to hopefully have a signed settlement that would dismiss the case. (Lawyers on both sides declined to comment as they left the courtroom in downtown Los Angeles.)<\/p>\n \n\tDiplo, born Thomas Wesley Pentz, has been locked in a dispute with Auguste since she filed for a restraining order in November 2020. She claimed in the filing that she met Pentz online when she was 17 in 2014 and that he \u201cgroomed\u201d her into exchanging sexually intimate messages. She accused him of posting a sexually explicit image of her on an anonymous Twitter account as \u201crevenge\u201d because she had claimed online that he filmed one of their sexual encounters without her consent.<\/p>\n \n\tPentz responded by filing his own restraining order petition on Dec. 8, 2020. He described Auguste as an \u201cobsessed fan\u201d who \u201dbecame vindictive\u201d \u00a0when he refused to continue to see her after a \u201cvery brief sexual encounter.\u201d He claimed they met in March 2018, not 2014, and admitted they had sex in April 2019 and again in Las Vegas in July 2019. He claimed Auguste sent him a barrage of unsolicited \u201clewd and obscene\u201d messages after that and became upset when he \u201crefused to engage.\u201d Pentz then accused Auguste of sending at least four sexually explicit videos of him to the mother of one of his children. He called himself a victim of \u201crevenge porn.\u201d<\/p>\n