Watching tearfully from a courtroom audience, pop star Kesha lost a bid Friday to be freed from her contract with a top record producer she says drugged, sexually abused and psychologically tormented her. But the ruling doesn't end the platinum-selling singer's clash with hitmaker Dr. Luke, who denies her claims and says she's smearing him to try to shirk her contract. Friday's decision wasn't the final word on their court fight in New York. The dispute is a strikingly personal fight in an industry with a long history of strife between artists and those who work with them. Kesha said in a sworn statement in August "I cannot work with this monster". Her lawyers say His abuse led her to develop an eating disorder and suicidal thoughts that prompted two months in a rehabilitation clinic in 2014 but Dr. Luke and his attorneys say the singer and her camp are trying to pressure him into letting her out of her contract.
