Country star Jimmie Allen says hes the victim after $1.8M judgment in sexual assault lawsuit

Jimmie Allen is maintaining his innocence and insisting he is the "victim" after a federal judge ordered the country star to pay nearly $1.8 million to a woman who accused him of sexual assault.

The 41-year-old singer faced two separate civil sexual assault and abuse lawsuits from two women in 2023. During an interview with Fox News Digital, Allen spoke candidly about the allegations that derailed his career, maintaining that his sexual encounters with both women who sued him were consensual while acknowledging that he was unfaithful to his then-wife, Alexis Gale.

When asked what he would say to his accusers today, Allen said he has forgiven both women but admitted that he struggled with being unable to publicly defend himself without being accused of blaming alleged victims.

"I wanted to just get on social media and call them liars and things like that," Allen said. "But it was interesting when I thought about it, someone said, 'No, well, you'll be a victim blamer and stuff like that.'"

"But I was like, 'I'm the victim here,'" he continued. "So they can say this about me, these horrible things about me and try to ruin and destroy everything that I worked my butt off for. But I can't say that they're lying."

In May 2023, the first woman, Jane Doe 1, who worked as the country singer's day-to-day manager, filed a lawsuit against Allen, in which she accused him of raping her in 2021 and subsequently sexually harassing her over the next 18 months.

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The second woman sued Allen in June 2023, accusing the "Big In A Small Town" singer of sexually assaulting her while she visited him at a Las Vegas hotel in the summer of 2022 while he was in Sin City for a bowling tournament. Jane Doe 2 claimed Allen had also recorded the encounter without her permission.

Allen denied both women's allegations and filed counterclaims against them in July 2023, accusing his former manager of defamation and other claims and accusing Jane Doe 2 of unlawfully taking his cellphone following their encounter.

In August 2025, Allen was found liable by default rather than following a trial in which a jury weighed the competing accounts.

The following June, a federal judge ordered Allen to pay Jane Doe 2 $1,790,541 in compensatory and punitive damages.

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While speaking with Fox News Digital, Allen said that he does not intend to simply accept the judgment.

"I'm pursuing options because I – me as a man and as a father and as the son and brother of real sexual assault victims – I cannot in good conscience do that," he said. "And that's why I feel like as a man and as a father, it is my job to fight it and find and chase whatever other options I can."

Allen did not specify what legal action he intended to pursue. Fox News Digital reached out to his current attorney, Ted Anastasiou, for comment.

The default ruling followed a series of missed deadlines and court orders. According to court records, Allen and his touring company failed to meet discovery requirements, attend court-ordered mediation and obtain new counsel within deadlines set by the court.

Allen claimed that much of the breakdown was due to his former attorney, Alandis Brassel, becoming seriously ill while representing him. The singer told Fox News