Recording artist Kid Rock will not face charges over a woman’s claim that he assaulted her by shoving her headfirst into a snowbank after a night of drinking, prosecutors said Friday.
Rock has made his name with a hybrid of rap and hard rock on hit albums such as 1998’s “Devil Without a Cause.” He made headlines last year for marrying actress Pamela Anderson and then filing for divorce after four months.
A 28-year-old woman filed a police complaint claiming she was roughed up by Rock earlier this month after Rock met her and a male friend at a bar and invited them to his house.
Prosecutors said Friday there was not enough evidence to charge the 36-year-old singer with any crime.
“The reports are fraught with differing eyewitness accounts, and without substantiating injuries there exists insufficient evidence to support a charge,” Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca said in a statement.
A lawyer for Rock, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, said he planned to sue the woman for filing a false police report.
“These allegations were taken very seriously by Kid Rock, and he’s not going to walk away,” said lawyer Michael Novak.
The woman told police she and her friend met Rock on March 8 at a bar in Clarkston, Mich.
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At his house, he played some songs planned for an upcoming album. The woman claimed Rock became belligerent when she told him she was leaving after 2 a.m., saying he followed her outside and pushed her by the neck into the snow.
“It’s just a complete, unfounded lie,” said Novak.
Rock told police the woman had put her drink on an expensive mixer in his home studio and then began criticizing his music. When he told her to leave and walked her outside, he said she threatened to sue him.
“The bottom line is that you’ve got a he-said, she-said,” said Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe.