Justin Bieber has filed to dismiss the defamation lawsuit he filed against two anonymous women that accused him of sexual assault.
As reported by media outlets, the 28-year-old singer recently asked a Los Angeles judge to dismiss the case.
A source told TMZ that Bieber decided not to carry on with the suit because he felt he had made his point and wanted to move forward.
Bieber sued two Jane Does for $20 million — $10 million each — in June 2020, after disclosing on Twitter that he had sexually assaulted them in 2014 and 2015.
Bieber however denied their claims and stated in court documents at that time that he had “indisputable documentary evidence” to prove the accusations to be “outrageous, fabricated lies.”
He also alleged in his suit that the two accusers were working together to ruin his reputation or that they could be one person operating many Twitter accounts.
One accuser claimed she was assaulted by Bieber when he was in Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest festival in March 2014. The alleged incident took place in a Four Seasons room, but Bieber made it known he never stayed at the hotel and had a rental property close by with his then-girlfriend Selena Gomez.
The other accuser claimed she was assaulted by Bieber in New York City in March 2015 when Bieber came for the Met Gala.
Bieber’s suit claimed the second accuser was a superfan who would wait outside of his hotels and that she later admitted on Twitter that she never met him on the date of the alleged assault.
Bieber also claimed that he went to a private afterparty after the Met Gala, and said in court documents that there was photo evidence.
He argued that the basis for the allegation could have been that there were reports he ate at the hotel the day after the incident allegedly happened.
