Nigel Lythgoe claims Paula Abdul fabricated alleged sexual assaults in Las Vegas

Paula Abdul She makes up new details about an alleged sexual assault she alleges at the hands of her former “American Idol” boss Nigel Lythgoe committed … according to new documents he filed in their ongoing battle.

The former “Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” EP filed documents Tuesday in which she evoked Paula’s recollection of an alleged 2015 incident in Las Vegas. As we first reported, Paula initially claimed she was a witness to Nigel gropes her assistant during a “SYTYCD” shoot…which Nigel denied when Paula first filed her lawsuit last December.

But Nigel raises an eyebrow when Paula’s story changed nine months later when she filed an amended lawsuit … accusing him of sexually abusing Paula in Vegas too. She claims that after the assistant rejected him, Nigel touched Paula’s “buttocks, hips, waist and her breasts” and also tried to kiss her on the neck.

Nigel’s new documents state: “It borders on credibility that Abdul allegedly remembered witnessing an alleged assault on her assistant… and apparently ‘forgot’ about it until the lawsuit was filed.” [amended complaint] that she Also was allegedly attacked at the same time.”

Bottom line, he flatly accuses Paula of fabricating this new version of her story just to keep her lawsuit alive – adding that the “changing accusations” affect her overall credibility.

For Nigel, he is the “victim of Abdul’s horrific lies.”

Of course, Paula’s lawsuit also claims that there were other alleged incidents involving Nigel… all of which he has denied and called “false and deeply offensive.”