Music and film mogul David Geffen says his estranged husband fabricated abuse and sexual exploitation claims as part of a “a ludicrous and contrived attempt to humiliate Geffen in the court of public opinion and extract an out-of-court settlement.”

The accusations come in Geffen’s first legal filing responding to the bombshell lawsuit brought last month by the media executive’s soon-to-be ex-husband, Donovan Michaels, a former exotic dancer 50 years his junior. The pair is in the midst of divorce proceedings after less than two years of marriage.

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