Danny Elfman sexual harassment suit
Robert Guerrero
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Abadi reportedly first met Elfman in Denver in 2015. According to the police report,“Elfman asked an acquaintance for Abadi’s email address and the two began communicating about music.” Childhood friends recall Abadi visiting Elfman’s studio and attending parties he hosted.
The police report goes on to claim that Elfman’s behavior became inappropriate within a year; Abadi claimed that Elfman “would answer the door [at his recording studio] in a robe with no clothes underneath” and “Elfman explained this was how he liked to work and would always justify his behavior.” The report also said that he allegedly masturbated in front of her without consent three times that year. “This made Abadi very uncomfortable,” the report says, “but she would just look away because Elfman insisted it help[ed] with his creativity.”
The report also details an incident in Paris where Elfman allegedly took nude photos of Abadi, masturbated in front of her during the shoot, and got in bed with her. A rep for Elfman acknowledged the Paris trip and nude photos but denied the masturbation and claimed that the photos had been Abadi’s idea.
Mr. Elfman never masturbated in front of Ms. Abadi. Ms. Abadi has confirmed they never had sexual relations or that he touched her inappropriately. The photo shoot in Paris involved Ms. Abadi taking off her clothes and her request that he photograph her. Ms. Abadi was willfully and happily participating in the photo shoot that she initiated and requested. She disrobed almost immediately without any encouragement.
“The attacks on Ms. Abadi today by Mr. Elfman and his representatives are as bizarre as his previous behavior towards Ms Abadi,” Anderson responded. “He pressured Ms. Abadi to sit for an ‘artistic’ photo shoot to be included in his existing photo gallery of him with many other women. He has refused to this day to return those photos.”
In another instance, in 2016 Elfman allegedly gave Abadi a martini glass, which Abadi claimed Elfman said had semen in it. Beforehand, Elfman had sent an email with a photo of a full martini glass with the caption “a mystery pik [sic] to pique your ‘magination.”
Elfman’s rep says the composer “never claimed it was semen” in the glass, and that the photo in question actually was filled with Cetaphil, a moisturizing cream. “It was designed to be a stupid photo prop and Ms. Abadi knew that,” the rep said. Elfman also gave a written declaration from an assistant claiming the glass’ contents were “made from stuff from his bathroom counter.”
Abadi also told LAPD that she’d talked to that assistant about Elfman. Abadi claimed the assistant told her that Elfman is a “different individual who does strange sexual things” and that Elfman had “labido [sic] interests…which i stay out of.”