The Abuse and Manipulation of Ke$ha
Outlore with Eleanor Neale
Eleanor Neale
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Los Angeles, 2005:
A young Kesha has just been kicked out of Paris Hilton’s house party for throwing up in a shoe closet, only the events that would follow this, would change the trajectory of her life forever.
That same night, her producer, Dr Luke walked Kesha back to his hotel room at the Mondrian Hotel, a quick walk from Paris’ house. But after arriving, Kesha would black out, her memory of the rest of the night wiped - only to awaken the next morning with a very bad, dark feeling…
What followed was not only a decade-long fight to get to the bottom of what happened in that hotel room, but also a legal battle, to finally be released from the man who Kesha was convinced was her abuser.
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| 1:03.2 | Ellen O'Neill and in today's episode we're in Los Angeles in 2005 at Paris Hilton's House |
| 1:09.9 | Party where after throwing up in a shoe closet, the 17-year-old |
| 1:14.2 | newly signed artist Kesha was about to be kicked out. The next morning, she would wake up in a |
| 1:20.6 | man's hotel room. She was naked, confused and violently ill, and now for a decade, she would be trapped in contracts and deals |
| 1:31.6 | that forced her to work with the very same man who had taken her back to that hotel room. |
| 1:42.3 | In 2005, a CD was handed to music producer Lucas Gottwald, now infamously known as Dr. Luke. |
| 1:50.0 | On this CD that he was handed, there were a hundred tracks from a hundred different unsigned artists. |
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