Top Dawg Cleared of Doxxing Amid Ugly Sexual Harassment Suit

Amid a sexual harassment and breach of contract lawsuit filed by PR professional Linda Luna, Top Dawg Entertainment and several of its higher-ups have officially beaten a doxxing claim.

That’s according to a new decision from the California Court of Appeal for the Second District, which overturned a lower-court order denying the defendants’ motion to strike. Those defendants are Top Dawg itself as well as chief marketing officer Brandon Tiffith, president Anthony Tiffith Jr., and film/TV manager David Harrell; all have denied the “baseless” allegations.

Admittedly, there’s a lot going on in the suit, which Luna and an individual named Ayah Altayri filed anonymously in December 2024. For a bit of quick background, Luna started handling PR and marketing for the hip-hop label in 2019, per the action.

But Top Dawg allegedly made “late or partial payments” for services rendered “despite her repeated requests, in writing, for prompt payment.” Then there’s an alleged failure to reimburse her for various expenses – including those Luna allegedly incurred after allowing a non-party Top Dawg artist to move into her home at Tiffith Jr.’s request.

Owing to “financial constraints,” Tiffith Jr. is said to have offered Luna a 10% management fee from this artist, who agreed to the terms and, per the text, in 2023 inked a multimillion-dollar Warner Records deal.

The artist allegedly told Luna to seek the 10% management share from Top Dawg, which allegedly “never paid” the fee.

Additionally, the suit accuses Tiffith Jr. as well as Brandon Tiffith of “sexual misconduct towards” Luna. Defendant Harrell allegedly “made unconsented sexual advances towards” the other plaintiff, who, as a friend of the unnamed artist’s, purportedly received room and board in exchange for providing “moral support” to the artist.

Throw in multiple screen-capped text messages, what Luna acknowledges was “a mutual, consensual kiss” with Tiffith Jr. in 2019, and a purported recording of a heated 2023 meeting concerning several of these allegations, and you’re left with a case that’s best decided by a jury.

Ahead of a scheduled May 2027 trial, however, Top Dawg has beaten the initially mentioned doxxing claim.

Though the suit was filed anonymously, as highlighted, the defendants when firing back against the “fabricated claims” (and a press statement from the plaintiffs) in early 2025 named Luna and Altayri.

Subsequently, Luna allegedly “received multiple harassing messages from third parties” and allegedly lost clients; an amended complaint therefore added a doxxing count, and the trial court, in rejecting a motion to strike, set the stage for an appeal.

Now, the doxxing claim is no more. As determined by the appellate court, “absent a specific statutory authorization, a plaintiff does not have an absolute right to sue anonymously.”

Furthermore, litigants “may proceed anonymously only after they file a motion with the trial court to find an overriding interest supports their use of pseudonyms.” But as Luna and Altayri “never filed such a motion,” Top Dawg “violated no court order or rule when it disclosed” their names.

“We are, of course, sensitive to the nature of Plaintiffs’ allegations, and they may have had a strong argument to remain anonymous,” the justices continued. “But it was incumbent on Plaintiffs to present their request to the trial court as soon as possible. Absent filing such a motion or a statutory basis, they simply had no ‘right’ to remain anonymous while suing in court.”

With that, all eyes are on the remaining claims; discovery is ongoing ahead of the aforesaid May 2027 trial, and when it comes to the doxxing sub-dispute, Top Dawg is “entitled to costs on appeal.”