He may not have been paid like other celebrities, but he had enough money to mount a defense. I mean, if he had enough money to sue years later, he had enough money to build a defence of his “innocence“ at the time.
Bottom line, there was enough incriminating evidence against him, including voicemail, that he didn’t build a defence because he had no defence to build. Trying to say years later that he was still innocent and not taking any accountability for his actions except for through the legal court system is ridiculous. He wasn’t innocent by any means.