The disgraced countertenor who pleaded guilty at a Houston court in 2023 to sexual assault of a young singer, is suing the University of Michigan for firing him three years earlier.
AP reports:
DETROIT (AP) — An acclaimed opera singer fired by the University of Michigan in 2020 over allegations of sexual misconduct is suing school officials, claiming his rights were violated during the process.
David Daniels is seeking an unspecified financial award.
A lawyer for the university on Thursday urged a judge to throw out the lawsuit, arguing that the countertenor waited too long to go to court.
Daniels, 58, was hired as a voice professor in 2015 and granted tenure three years later in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. He was fired in 2020 after an investigation found he had solicited at least three students and shared a sexually explicit video with one, officials said.
Separately, Daniels and his husband were charged in Houston in 2019. A graduate student at Rice University said the couple drugged and sexually assaulted him years earlier after they met at a Houston Grand Opera reception.
Daniels and Scott Walters pleaded guilty in 2023 to sexual assault and were placed on probation….
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