The entire music business is speculating about the identity the CEO who, according to Dr. Luke, is now denying he told Kesha that Katy Perry had revealed to him that she was raped.

The ongoing defamation case between Kesha and Dr. Luke entangled Katy Perry last week, when court documents filed in New York revealed that Kesha had also accused the producer of raping Perry in a text message to Lady Gaga. Bizarrely, it was Dr. Luke’s legal team that made the existence of said text message public. Variety broke the story.

The documents specifically claim, “On February 26, 2016, [Kesha] sent a text message to Stefani Germanotta p/k/a/ Lady Gaga which repeated [Kesha’s] false claim that [Luke] had raped her.”

Kesha's legal team has now responded to the furor around that revelation, claiming in a statement that an unnamed CEO of a major label told both Kesha and Lady Gaga about the assault, which would in fact corroborate Kesha's text.

The statement reads, in part:

“With respect to the recent story regarding Katy Perry, the statement that Dr. Luke assaulted her came from the CEO of a major record label, and was told by that executive at the same time to Kesha and Lady Gaga. The startling statement was subsequently discussed in a private, one-on-one text message between Kesha and Lady Gaga. It was neither published nor further distributed. It would have remained completely private, except that Dr. Luke and his team took an email obtained only in discovery and decided to publish it to millions of people in his amended complaint against Kesha, and then claim reputational harm from his own widespread publication."

Amid all the accusations and unsettling intrigue, it seems the entire business is speculating about the identity of that CEO.

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