Music superstar Taylor Swift tells Time magazine that a former Denver radio disc jockey who lost a trial decision against her in federal court in Denver has yet to hand over the symbolic $1 fine a jury ordered him to pay.
“When the jury found in my favor, the man who sexually assaulted me was court-ordered to give me a symbolic $1. To this day he has not paid me that dollar, and I think that act of defiance is symbolic in itself,” Swift told Time magazine, which included her as one of the “silence breakers” it honored as Person of the Year.
In 2015, a former KYGO radio host sued Swift in federal court claiming her allegations that he grabbed her butt during a meet and greet before a Pepsi Center concert led directly to his firing. David Mueller had sought up to $3 million. But on Aug. 14, a jury ruled against him and ordered him to pay the $1 Swift had sought as a symbolic penalty.
Swift issued a statement at the time that thanked her attorneys “for fighting for me and anyone who feels silenced by a sexual assault.”
“I figured that if he would be brazen enough to assault me under these risky circumstances and high stakes, imagine what he might do to a vulnerable, young artist if given the chance,” Swift responded by email to a Time question.
She told the magazine that in the process of angrily replying to Mueller’s questions, she was anything but polite.
“I’m told it was the most amount of times the word ‘ass’ has ever been said in Colorado Federal Court,” she told Time.
Mueller told the Associated Press on Wednesday that he mailed Swift a Sacagawea coin last week. Mueller provided a letter to AP showing the payment was sent Nov. 28. He said he intended the coin as a final jab at the singer.
