Last month, we reported that the ex-wife of the legendary singer Phil Collins had accused him of being impotent and not bathing for over a year in a nasty lawsuit over his estate in Miami, Florida. Now, Collins has scored a victory in court as a judge has ruled that the “outrageous” claims made against the singer by his ex-wife Orianne Cevey must be struck from the ongoing lawsuit.

Page Six reported that the ruling came after a virtual hearing in which lawyers representing Collins, 69, and Cevey, 46, hashed it out over the “scandalous” claims, which the singer’s lawyers argued had no relevancy to legal dispute over the house.

“These are outrageous statements that I’m not going to repeat,” said Collins’ attorney Brandon Carrington, who said that the claims of impotency and bad hygiene should be struck from the lawsuit entirely. The judge ended up agreeing before adding that Cevey should sit for a deposition, which probably won’t happen until January.

Cevey and Collins were initially married from 1999 to 2008, and they had two sons together during that time. She married Charles Mejati after their divorce, but went on to reunite with Collins in 2015.

The couple split once again back in July after Cevey sent Collins a text saying that she was in love with another man. Just one month later, she secretly married her current husband, 31 year-old Thomas Bates.

Collins immediately tried to evict Cevey and Bates from his home in Miami, but she has fired back in court by claiming that the singer once promised her 50 percent of the $40 million estate, which he is currently trying to sell.

The court case took a shocking turn when Cevey made a series of claims about Collins, alleging that in 2019, he “became increasingly depressed, withdrawn, abusive and following an operation on his back, increasingly addicted to antidepressants and painkillers.”

“He was incapable of having sex,” she alleged in court papers. “He stopped showering, brushing his teeth and dressing properly (in fact, he did not shower or brush his teeth from 2019 until August 2020 when he vacated)” their home.

Collins vehemently denied all of this, saying that Cevey’s claims contain “a litany of demonstrably false, immaterial, impertinent, scandalous and scurrilous allegations which have nothing to do with the legal claims in this case.”

“These allegations are included only to further defendants’ plan to deliberately make sensationalized and/or false allegations in an effort to extort money from … Phil Collins,” his lawyers added.

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