Kesha is seen arm-in-arm with her boyfriend Riccardo Maddalosso in Los Angeles... following an initial legal victory against Dr Luke
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Kesha and her boyfriend Riccardo Maddalosso were spotted as they stepped out in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
The Your Love Is My Drug hitmaker, 36, kept close to her boyfriend as he draped his arm over her shoulder after exiting a parking garage.
The Grammy nominee - who recently revealed she was once secretly engaged - donned dark glasses and minimal makeup.
And she styled her blonde locks back in a loose ponytail with long bangs behind her ears.
The pop star, whose real name is Kesha Rose Sebert, showed off her significantly slimmer figure flashing her abs in a Pixies rock band tank top while flaunting her toned legs in a tan mini skirt with white trainers.
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Maddalosso, a Hollywood filmmaker and producer, donned a brown hat, his usual glasses, and a well-groomed beard. He wore a blue button-up over a grey shirt and carried a $3,200 large Fendi Sunshine bag.
The busy filmmaker released two films last year, Armageddon Time (2022) and Harka (2022). Kesha confirmed they were dating three months ago.
This comes after a preliminary legal win against Dr Luke.
On Tuesday, New York's top appeals court sided with the singer in her legal battle with her former manager, making it harder for him to prove in trial that she defamed him by accusing him of rape in 2014, according to Billboard.
The trial will start on July 19 and run through July 26, after being delayed.
Their long-running legal battle began in 2014 when Dr Luke, born Lukasz Gottwald, sued her for defaming him through 'false and shocking' allegations that he drugged and raped her.
Dr Luke claims Kesha's ulterior motive for the allegations was financial; she wanted to negotiate a better deal for herself contractually.
The Court of Appeals in New York's ruling stated that Dr Luke is legally considered a 'public figure.' In 2010, he was named both the Number One Hot 100 Songwriter of the Year and Number One Producer of the Year by Billboard.
To prove defamation, he must demonstrate that Kesha intended to inflict 'actual malice' with her statements. This is a challenging legal obstacle to overcome.
A year before the allegations against Dr. Luke, in September 2013, a devoted Kesha fan initiated a petition to free the singer from Dr. Luke's management.
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The petitioner accused Luke of hindering Kesha's creative growth as an artist. The petition received an overwhelming response, garnering over 10,000 signatures.
Last month, Kesha released two singles, Fine Line and Eat The Acid, from her fifth studio album Gag Order, which debuted on May 19.
She spoke to Rolling Stone about the follow-up to 2020's High Road: 'I feel like I'm giving birth to the most intimate thing I've ever created.'
The Woman singer - who bonded spiritually with the album's producer Rick Rubin - admits it was 'nerve-wracking' laying bare all these 'uglier emotions.'
She continued: 'I really dug into some of my uglier emotions and sides of myself that are less fun.
'It's scary being vulnerable. The fact that I have compiled an entire record of these emotions, of anger, of insecurity, of anxiety, of grief, of pain, of regret, all of that is so nerve-racking — but it's also so healing.'
The star is thankful to the studio wizard for creating a 'safe space' for her to unload her feelings.
She said: 'I wrote TiK ToK, and 'the party don't start 'til I walk in,' so I almost felt like I was becoming a caricature of this toxic positivity.
'We live in a culture where I feel like we always show our best side. But Rick Rubin created the most beautiful, safe space for me to really dive into these emotions.'
The album was made after the star had a 'spiritual awakening', which she thought was a mental breakdown.
She recalled: 'I had this really beautiful, scary, and intense spiritual awakening where it felt like I was talking to my highest self, or God, whatever word you want to say.
'I fully thought I was having a mental breakdown. I called my therapist and my doctor. They all were like, 'Oh, you had a spiritual awakening. Yay! Good job.''
And the experience with a higher power and some advice from her songwriter mom Pebe Sebert inspired her to pen Eat The Acid.
Her parents told her: 'Do whatever you want in your life, but don't eat acid, because when you eat acid, you see things that you'll never be able to unsee.'
Kesha, who has mainly kept her dating life private, revealed on an Instagram post last June, 'I'm not gay. I'm not straight. I don't know what I am. I love people.'
The star continued, 'I love people because we are all our own little consciousness journeys, dancing around the sun. how weird and interesting and fun this life is, right?'
'I refuse to be anything, really, except for open to it all. I know it can be confusing sometimes, but you are so seen and loved,' she further added towards the end of her lengthy caption.
Earlier in 2019, the star had stated that she was 'bisexual' during an interview with Attitude Magazine, per Page Six.
'I never had a moment of feeling I had to come out about it. It was always there,' she explained to the publication.
'I think I had a conversation with a gay magazine in the US and they just asked me, 'Oh, are you bisexual?' and I was like, 'Obviously!'
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