Jane Doe v. Sammy Hagar

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Jane Doe appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment of dismissal in favor of defendant-appellee Sammy Hagar, a well-known rock musician. After meeting in 1983, Doe and Hagar engaged in a romantic relationship spanning several years. In 1988, Doe became pregnant and believed that Hagar was the father of her child. Hagar denied paternity. Doe gave birth in February 1989 and the child died soon thereafter. Twenty-two years later in 2011, Hagar published an autobiography in which he alleged that Doe had extorted him by claiming she was…