The famed music producer Noel “Detail” Fi
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“I was so exhausted I couldn’t drive,” Soon enough, Buch says, the second woman, Detail’s other protégée, came and found her, persuading her to go back to the hotel room. The woman then left to go to an Airbnb where This time, though, things were different. The next day was Sunday morning—the one day a week Detail usually let her out of his sight, according to Buch. The other woman had left for the Airbnb in Buch’s car. In a miracle of quick thinking, Buch says, “It was a spur of the moment thing,” Three women—Kristina Buch, Isabella Mack, and Janae Knox—separately sued Detail in civil court between 2018 and 2019. Each ultimately won a sizable default judgment against him after he simply failed to show up or respond to the suits in any way. Buch’s was the largest: She was awarded $15 million in September of 2019. Long after Buch’s judgment was won, Detail has resurfaced, demanding the case be reopened and claiming he had no knowledge of it at all. He has also claimed in court filings that restraining orders sought by Buch and another woman damaged his career, smearing his name and making it virtually impossible for him to work, as well as damaging his psyche so much he became homeless. (Buch’s lawyers have argued that his claim that he knew about the restraining orders, but somehow failed to learn about the lawsuits, strains credulity.) In court filings, Detail has also denied the assault allegations, writing that he has been “wrongly and falsely” accused of physical and sexual abuse, and that those allegations have taken a toll on both his career and his mental health. Recently, after more than two years, the case has finally spilled over into the criminal realm. After a long and balky investigation by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and L.A. District Attorney’s office, Detail was arrested on August 5 and charged with sexual abuse against six women, named by their initials in court documents. He remains in custody, with bail set at $6.2 million. One of those women is Buch; to her knowledge, Genie Harrison said, neither Mack or Knox are among the victims listed in the criminal case. In all, Deta is charged with 15 counts of sexual assault and five additional counts of felony assault. On September 16, Detail pleaded not guilty. His next court date is October 20, when a bail review will be scheduled While Buch says Buch moved to Los Angeles from her hometown in Indiana in 2016, hoping to start a career as a singer. Her sister had been living in New York, and the two, who were always close, agreed they’d move to LA together. They found a place and both were signed to the same modeling agency, L.A. Models. But Buch was more interested in music, and when When they first started working together, Buch says, Detail attempted to be “flirty”, but But there was also an early incident of alleged abuse in September 2017, which Buch to this day remains uncomfortable discussing. She will say that it happened in Miami, when Detail took her to work at Lil Wayne’s studio. “All my biggest, wildest dreams were coming true,” Buch said, before Detail crossed a physical boundary. She declined to specify what precisely occurred, but said it left her feeling horrified and stuck with no good options. She was in Miami with no way to get back to LA without him. “I also felt like if I let someone know this happened now, then I’m a joke,” “Every day was a journey,” described in a civil lawsuit according to the Associated Press, as well as demanding wrote extensively about the allegations, to date, against Detail; in statements to the outlet, both Knox and Mack called for him to be held accountable. After Buch escaped from the hotel room and went to the police, What followed was, as promised, a long silence. It left Buch with an uncomfortable and unwelcome amount of time to figure out what to do, how to keep herself safe, and, most of all, to unravel how the abuse had continued for as long as it had. In May 2018, Buch and another woman finally took action in civil court. They filed for emergency protective orders against Detail, accusing him of rape. In response, several other prominent musicians tweeted about their own experiences with him. The singer Bebe Rexha tweeted (and cross-posted to Instagram) “Glad these women came out. It’s scary. He tried to with me, but I literally ran out of that studio. Karma is a bitch.” The singer Tina responded to Rexha’s Instagram post, writing in a comment, “The only session I’ve been in to this day where I left due to being soooo uncomfortable. Glad he’s being exposed for the fuging creep he is.” Meanwhile, the young Canadian singer Jessie Reyez wrote on Twitter, “One night, over 6 years ago Noel ‘Detail’ Fi In Detail’s telling, according to court documents, he’s the one who’s been victimized, by a series of false allegations that he claimed have cost him his career. In a response he filed in January 2020 to Buch’s lawsuit—months after “He told me so many times I wouldn’t be shit without him,” Buch said recently. “But I’m like, ‘Yes, I am.’ I can do this without you.”
