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Robin Antin‘s claws are out.
The founder of the Pussycat Dolls is not keeping quiet after a one-time member Kaya Jones publicly took to Twitter last week to allege that the members of her former girl group were a part of a “prostitution ring” and had slept with men in order to be in the group.
Antin spoke to The Blast and called the allegations, “disgusting, ridiculous lies,” and said Jones, who was in the group from 2003-2005, is “clearly looking for her 15 minutes.”
The outlet also reports that Robin claims that Kaya was actually just on a trial and never an official member of the group.
In 2005, Kaya told Yahoo! Singapore, “When everyone is not on the same page it affects the group so that I think was the worst part and I decided to leave. It was not because I wanted to be solo and I didn’t want to be in a group anymore, I left because it stopped being enjoyable, it stopped being fun.”
However, on Friday, Kaya tweeted she departed for very different, much darker reasons.
“My truth. I wasn’t in a girl group. I was in a prostitution ring. Oh & we happened to sing & be famous. While everyone who owned us made the $,” she began by writing to her fans.
“How bad was it? People ask—bad enough that I walked away from my dreams, my bandmates & a 13 million dollar record deal. We knew we were going to be #1.”