Music superstar Taylor Swift tells Time magazine that a former Denver radio disc jockey who 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 .
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,
“I’m told it was ,” 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.
