Kesha’s megahits drove millions of album sales and made her a global star. Dr. Luke became the industry’s most sought-after producer. But one night loomed behind every concert she headlined and every No. 1 song he spun.
Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Paris Hilton and TMZ all figured into the Kesha and Dr. Luke case that rocked the entertainment industry.
He heard potential in two voices. The first was the daughter of Pentecostal pastors from Santa Barbara, Katheryn Hudson, now known as Katy Perry. The second was a high school senior from suburban Nashville, Sebert.She had what he called “swagger” and was “just very forward and generally like aggressive, cocky, bratty.” On one demo, Gottwald recalled, she did “a white girl version of rapping. And I found it, you know, entertaining.”Sebert’s mother, Pebe, was no stranger to the music industry.
Kesha Sebert’s lawyer and her mother warned against the deal, but she was 18 by then and overruled them. The session wrapped by 10:46 p.m., according to the time stamp on a rough cut Gottwald emailed to the Swedish producer Martin. Sebert and Gottwald then headed to the Hollywood Boulevard nightclub Mood, where Hilton’s sister Nicky was celebrating her 22nd birthday. Questioned more than a decade later, some details of that night eluded them.
Both recalled the alcohol affecting Sebert. Gottwald described her as “between being sober and drunk.” Sebert, who said she had never previously had Champagne, recalled feeling “a little woozy” and “nauseous.”announced she was hosting an after-party at her villa, and at this point, the accounts of Sebert and Gottwald diverge.
She threw up in what she thought was a bathroom before realizing it was a closet. She stumbled into a bathroom where, she testified, a group hovered over a tray of cocaine. Most fled as she vomited in a toilet, but one man stayed. The Mondrian hotel in West Hollywood, shown in 2003, was about a six-minute walk from the home of Paris Hilton. Gottwald was staying there while in town from New York in October 2005.
At around 2 p.m., she called her mother in Tennessee, according to hotel billing records, and said she had blacked out while at a party with Gottwald and thought she needed to go to an emergency room. In a subsequent call, she said there was a change of plans: A friend was coming to pick her up from the hotel.The friend who picked her up, Julianne Hall, said Sebert complained that her genitals “hurt” and said, “I maybe was f—.
For months after, Sebert “would call and say, ‘I still feel very strange. I think something happened. … I just can’t remember. … It’s fuzzy, but I remember Luke being there,’” Hall testified. “It was just her kind of trying to remember, trying to put pieces together.” Gottwald threw a party the next month at an L.A. home he and his then-girlfriend, Jill Latiano, had rented. Sebert attended with a man she was dating. Latiano, an actress and model, took pictures of Sebert and Gottwald together in the kitchen. Asked if the singer had acted uncomfortably around the producer, Latiano testified: “Not at all.”She had heard from Gottwald how “Kesha got very drunk and threw up on Paris Hilton’s shoes in her closet,” she testified.
At the Chateau meeting, the singer and her mother told Sonenberg they wanted out of the contract, according to his testimony. He listened sympathetically, but told them that there may not be a way out of the agreement. It had only recently been signed and both sides had had the benefit of legal counsel.“Well, if he gave drugs to my daughter, if he had sex with my daughter when she was under age, wouldn’t that give rise to the ability to terminate the agreement?” he recalled her saying.
The Seberts eventually insisted Gottwald be confronted about it. Their lawyer agreed, but only did so elliptically. Sebert, meanwhile, was living in a Silver Lake apartment and depending on her mother and waitressing gigs and other odd jobs for money. She performed rarely and in small venues, like a house party at Coachella.
Questioned about the apology years later, Sebert said: “At that point I felt like I had no other option.”“Right Round” was about oral sex, according to co-writer Bruno Mars. As Gottwald tinkered with the track, he came to believe that having the male rapper sing the lyrics “when you go down” over and over was “a little misogynistic” and might alienate radio’s mostly female audience, according to comments he made at a music conference.
“If you have eight takes of someone singing the chorus, you might take different words from any of those eight takes and you combine them,” Gottwald testified. “These days, I would say it’s always that way.” “I made my view of [Gottwald] and his reputation when I saw her in that back room,” she testified in 2017.
Sebert, photographed in 2012 in Los Angeles, was a bona fide music idol by 2010, a “21st century pop star,” as a Billboard cover story declared. In these years, the night of the Mondrian, previously regarded by the Seberts as a potential weapon to use against Gottwald, was recast as a tale of alcohol-soaked hijinks.“I drank some Champagne, and then drank some whiskey, and then ate some sushi, and I was like, bad combo platter, threw open the door I thought was to the bathroom, turns out it was her closet,” according to a video recording of the interview.
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