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Paula to Police: I Was Straight-Up Roughed Up

Forget Simon, Paula Abdul has a new nemesis in her crosshairs.

The usually perky American Idol judge has filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department accusing a man of assaulting her at a weekend party.

The "Straight Up" singer turned up at the Hollywood station on Tuesday to file her claim. She said she was attending a private bash at a local club about 1 a.m. on Sunday, when a fellow partygoer grabbed her by the arm and threw her against the wall.

"She said she had sustained a concussion and spinal injuries," said police Lieutenant Paul Vernon. Abdul already suffers from a neurological disoder that causes her chronic back pain, and the club fight apparently didn't help.

Police refused to identify the man responsible for the alleged smackdown until the completion of an investigation.

According to Vernon, Abdul said she was seeking her own medical treatment but agreed to have her injuries photographed. She has yet to set a time to have the photos taken.

There was no immediate comment Thursday from Abdul's publicist, Michelle Bega.

News of the incident was first reported by Us Weekly, which claims the altercation took place at the Hollywood club Xenii. The magazine said Abdul's companion, Dante Spencer, was also injured in the fracas, receiving stitches for a cut below his eyebrow.

Us reported that a Hollywood agent named Jim Lefkowitz was the one responsible for the incident.

"The press accounts of the so-called altercation between Jim Lefkowitz and Paula Abdul at Xenii last Sunday morning are completely outrageous and utterly false," Lefkowitz's lawyer, Michael Nasatir, said in a statement.

"Mr. Lefkowitz did not have an argument with Ms. Abdul nor did he have any physical contact with her whatsoever. We are confident that when all the facts come out, it will be clear that he was merely an innocent bystander at an unfortunate incident."

Abdul didn't seem to exhibit any signs of discomfort during Wednesday night's American Idol results show, when 29-year-old Tennessee native Mandisa got the boot.

The 43-year-old Grammy winner recently reupped for three more years alongside fellow judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson.

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