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One of Spotify\u2019s f<\/span>ormer sales executives, Hong Perez, is suing Spotify and her former boss, <\/a><\/span>head of sales Brian Berner,<\/span> for gender discrimination, equal pay violation and defamation in New York\u2019s Supreme Court. Perez\u2019s complaint accuses Berner of taking mens-only employee trips to the 2016 and 2017 Sundance FIlm Festival, as well as to Atlantic City strip clubs. Perez also alleges Spotify awarded higher compensation to male employees and promoted employees despite sexual harassment warnings. Spotify denied these claims. <\/span><\/p>\n Drake<\/b><\/p>\n Drake filed a fraud lawsuit against model Laquana Morris<\/a> (aka Layla Lace) on Tuesday in the Superior Court of California, accusing her of civil extortion, fraud, defamation, abuse of process, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Drake admitted to having consensual sexual relations with Morris in Manchester, England February 2017. In April 2017, she claimed on social media that he dumped her after she told him she was pregnant with his child. The case also alleges that Morris demanded money from Drake and filed a police report alleging the rapper raped her during the Manchester hotel encounter. Manchester police cleared Drake of of sexual assault allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n Nick Cave and Marianne Faithfull released a collaboration<\/a> titled \u201cThe Gypsy Faerie Queen,\u201d which will be included on her twenty-first album <\/span>Negative Capability, <\/span><\/i>due out November 2nd. Avril Lavigne released first song in five years, \u201cHead Above Water,\u201d which describes her battle with Lyme Disease. Major Lazer and South African singer Babes Wodumo released \u201cOrkant\/Balance Pon It\u201d<\/a> with a video that showcases people of Durban, South Africa dancing on buses, in classrooms and on the streets. <\/span><\/p>\nThe New New<\/h2>\n