NEW YORK — British musician FKA twigs has settled the sexual battery lawsuit she brought against ex-boyfriend Shia LaBeouf in 2020 and is seeking to dismiss all her claims against the controversial actor.

Lawyers for the 37-year-old Grammy nominee, real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett, and the “Transformers” star, 39, released a joint statement, after Variety reports that Barnett requested her claims be dismissed with prejudice, preventing her from refiling.

“Committed to forging a constructive path forward, we have agreed to settle our case out of court. While the details of the settlement will remain private, we wish each other personal happiness, professional success and peace in the future,” Barnett’s attorney Bryan Freedman and LaBeouf’s lawyer Shawn Holley said in a statement shared with the Daily News.

The “cellophane” singer, who met LaBeouf while making 2019’s “Honey Boy,” in her December 2020 filing accused the Disney Channel alum of physical and emotional abuse, including choking as well as knowingly giving her and “other unsuspecting women” a sexually transmitted disease.

LaBeouf “hurts women. He uses them. He abuses them both physically and mentally. He is dangerous,” said Barnett, who also accused him of “love bombing” at the start of their romance.

The lawsuit also laid out LaBeouf’s alleged abuse against ex-girlfriend, stylist Karolyn Pho.

“I’m not in any position to tell anyone how my behavior made them feel. I have no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, only rationalizations. I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years. I have a history of hurting the people closest to me. I’m ashamed of that history and am sorry to those I hurt,” LaBeouf wrote in an email to The New York Times in 2020. “There is nothing else I can really say.”

In response to the filing, he also said that “many of these allegations are not true,” though he owed Barnett and Pho “the opportunity to air their statements publicly and accept accountability for those things I have done.”

The settlement comes four years after Barnett and LaBeouf were first reported to be in “productive settlement negotiations” in June 2021.

Barnett told GQ in June 2022 that she filed because she “just didn’t want anyone else to get hurt.” A jury trial date had been set to take place this September after it was delayed last October.

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Doctor pleads guilty to selling Matthew Perry ketamine in the weeks before the actor's death

LOS ANGELES — A doctor who was a primary target in the sweeping investigation of actor Matthew Perry's overdose death pleaded guilty Wednesday to supplying the “Friends” star with ketamine despite knowing he was a struggling addict.

Dr. Salvador Plasencia became the fourth of the five people charged in connection with Perry’s death to plead guilty. He and a woman prosecutors say was a major ketamine dealer faced the most serious charges after Perry was found dead in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home on Oct. 28, 2023.

Plasencia stood next to his lawyer and said “guilty” four times for four different counts before Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett in federal court in Los Angeles.

Plasencia, 43, was to have gone on trial in August until the doctor agreed last month to plead guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine, according to the signed document filed in federal court in Los Angeles.

The charges can carry up to 40 years in prison. He is likely to be sentenced to much less, but there is no guarantee in his agreement.

He spoke only to answer the judge's questions. When asked if his lawyers had considered all the possibilities of pleas and sentencing in the case, Plasencia replied, “They've considered everything.”

“Dr. Plasencia is profoundly remorseful for the treatment decisions he made while providing ketamine to Matthew Perry,” the doctor's attorney, Debra White, said in an emailed statement after the hearing. “He is fully accepting responsibility by pleading guilty to drug distribution. Dr. Plasencia intends to voluntarily surrender his medical license, acknowledging his failure to protect Mr. Perry, a patient who was especially vulnerable due to addiction.”

In exchange for the guilty pleas, prosecutors have agreed to drop three additional counts of distribution of ketamine and two counts of falsifying records.

Prosecutors outlined the charges in court before the plea, and said that he did not sell Perry the dose that killed the actor.

They described, and Plasencia admitted, that Perry froze up and his blood pressure spiked when the doctor gave him one injection, but Plasencia still left more ketamine for Perry's assistant to inject.

In court, Perry was referred to only as “victim MP.” Plasencia acknowledged that he knew the actor was in addict when he charged him thousands of dollars and gave him ketamine, a drug primarily used as a surgical anesthetic.

Plasencia has been free on bond since shortly after his arrest in August, and will be allowed to remain free until his Dec. 3 sentencing.

Defense lawyer Karen Goldstein assured the judge that he is not a flight risk, saying he was born and raised in the area and is one of the primary caretakers for his son, who is about 2 years old.

Plasencia has already turned over his license to prescribe controlled substances. He has been allowed to practice medicine in the past year, but he must inform patients of the charges before treating them. Goldstein told the judge he'll now surrender his medical license too.

Plasencia left the courthouse with his lawyers without speaking to reporters gathered outside.

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After much speculation, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham announce 'Buckingham Nicks' reissue

NEW YORK — They're not going their own way anymore. After much speculation, Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham announced Wednesday the reissue of “Buckingham Nicks,” more than 50 years after the release of their only full-length album as a duo.

Since its initial release in 1973, “Buckingham Nicks” has never been reissued and is not currently available on streaming platforms. The remastered version arrives Sept. 19 via Rhino Records' high-fidelity series and was sourced from the original analog master tapes. The album will also receive a CD and digital release for the first time, and the opening track, “Crying in the Night,” was available to stream Wednesday.

Buckingham and Nicks were in their early to mid-20s during the making of their album. “It was a very natural thing, from the beginning,” Nicks says in the re-release's liner notes, written by music journalist David Fricke.

Despite their relative inexperience, “it stands up in a way you would hope it would, by these two kids who were pretty young to be doing that work,” Buckingham says, according to the announcement release.

The reissue announcement was foreshadowed by cryptic Instagram posts last week. Both Nicks and Buckingham shared handwritten lyrics to their official social media accounts.

“And if you go forward …” Nicks posted, a line from their song “Frozen Love,” which appears on “Buckingham Nicks.”

“I’ll meet you there,” Buckingham shared, completing the lyric.

In 2011, Buckingham told Uncut that he and Nicks had “every intention of putting that album back out and possibly even doing something along with it, but I can’t put any specifics on that.” In 2013, on the album’s 40th anniversary, Fleetwood Mac released “Extended Play,” their first new studio material since 2003’s “Say You Will.” The four-track collection featured a song titled “Without You,” which had been originally slated for “Buckingham Nicks.”

The reissued version of “Buckingham Nicks” features the same album cover as the original, despite Nicks' public dissatisfaction with the photograph, telling classic rock magazine MOJO that she “felt like a rat in a trap” during the shoot.

“I’m actually quite prudish. So when they suggested they shoot Lindsey and I nude I could not have been more terrified if you’d asked me to jump off a speeding train,” Nicks told MOJO in 2013. “Lindsey was like, ‘Oh, come on — this is art. Don’t be a child!’ I thought, ‘Who are you? Don’t you know me?’”

“Buckingham Nicks” was released one year before they joined Fleetwood Mac, and was met with little commercial success. But it did attract the attention of Mick Fleetwood, who invited Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham in turn insisted Nicks come, too. The two, then a couple, became the central faces, voices and songwriters of the group for the four decades that followed.

The pair’s tumultuous relationship appeared across the band’s discography: She wrote “Dreams” about him. He wrote “Go Your Own Way” about her. Infamously, they broke up while writing the 1977 hit album “Rumours.” Footage of Nicks staring down Buckingham 20 years later during a performance of “Silver Springs” routinely goes viral (“You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you,” Nicks and Buckingham sing in unison, at one point, holding each other's gaze.)

Buckingham left the band in 1987, returning in 1996. The last time the band reunited, however, for a 2018-2019 tour, the rest of the members kicked Buckingham out, and as a result, he sued them. He claimed he was told five days after the group appeared at Radio City Music Hall that the band would tour without him. He says he would have been paid at least $12 million for his share of the proceeds. Later that year, Buckingham said they had settled the lawsuit.

Both Buckingham and Nicks have also released reams of solo music. Some fans had theorized that Nicks and Buckingham were teasing a Fleetwood Mac reunion, which would have been the first since the death of vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player Christine McVie in 2022.

Last year, Nicks told MOJO that without McVie, “there is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way.”

From combined wire services