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Bob Dylan Wins $8,000 from Lawyers of Woman Whose Sex Abuse Case Against Him Was Dismissed

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The crazy lawsuit against Bob Dylan for sexual harassment in the 1960s has had a plot twist ending.

I told you when this case was filed that it was bogus, and I produced evidence that Dylan was not even in New York City when the event supposedly took place at the Chelsea Hotel.

It was all made up by a disturbed woman who convinced two lawyers to take the case.

Now a judge has ordered those lawyers to pay Dylan $5,000 and $3,000 each as a punishment for not complying with any orders of discovery. They couldn’t produce any backup to the insane claims. The judge wasn’t happy. She was kind, though. Dylan wanted $50,000.

US District Court Judge Katherine Polk Failla’s order can be read here.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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