Actress Ashley Judd says she is NOT part of Harvey Weinstein's $44 million settlement over his alleged sexual misconduct and says she will see him in court
- Actress Ashley Judd said she is not one of the victims named in shamed producer Harvey Weinstein’s tentative $44 million compensation deal
- Judd has accused Weinstein of derailing her career after allegedly rejecting his sexual advances during the 1990s in a lawsuit filed last year
- ‘[My] case against Harvey Weinstein is ongoing and we intend to bring it to trial. [I’m] not a part of any settlement,’ Judd declared in a tweet on Thursday evening
- It’s not currently clear who the recipients of the compensatory fund are, but the deal will not affect Weinstein's trial, which is set to begin on September 9
Actress Ashley Judd has announced that she is not one of the victims named in shamed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s tentative $44 million compensation deal – and insists she’ll be seeing him in court.
One of the first to accuse the movie mogul of sexual misconduct, Judd has accused Weinstein of derailing her career after allegedly rejecting his sexual advances during the 1990s in a lawsuit filed last year.
Following the announcement of Weinstein’s landmark settlement on Thursday, on Twitter, Judd made it abundantly clear she wasn’t among the claimants.
‘[My] case against Harvey Weinstein is ongoing and we intend to bring it to trial. [I’m] not a part of any settlement,’ Judd declared in a tweet on Thursday evening.
Actress Ashley Judd said she isn’t one of the victims named in shamed producer Harvey Weinstein’s tentative $44 million compensation deal
Judd has accused Weinstein of derailing her career after allegedly rejecting his sexual advances during the 1990s in a lawsuit filed last year
Since the 51-year-old accused Weinstein of historic sexual misconduct, more than 80 other woman have come forward to allege various degrees of wrongdoing against the once revered producer, including harassment and rape.
Weinstein has vehemently denied the slew of accusations which cite ‘non-consensual sexual activity’, but his legal woes have continued to mount.
Attorneys representing the claims against Weinstein said on Thursday that a deal between the 67-year-old, his accusers, his former film studio's board members and the New York attorney general's office has struck a settlement deal in excess of $44 million.
The grand sum, which lawyers revealed to a bankruptcy judge would be paid by insurance policies and not directly out of the pocket of Weinstein, also includes $14 million in legal fees for the accused, and $30 million in compensation for his alleged victims.
If finalized, it would also resolve a civil rights lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general's office last year that accuses Weinstein Co's executives and board of failing to protect employees from a hostile work environment and Weinstein's sexual misconduct, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It’s not currently clear who the recipients of the compensatory fund are, but the deal will not affect Weinstein's trial, which is set to begin on September 9.
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‘[My] case against Harvey Weinstein is ongoing and we intend to bring it to trial. [I’m] not a part of any settlement,’ Judd declared in a tweet on Thursday evening (Pictured: Weinstein and Judd together with Vince Vaughn in 1997)
Last week, Robert, Weinstein's brother suffered a big loss in court on May 14 when Judge Barbara Jaffe denied his motion to be dismissed as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a former company employee.
It was also ordered that Robert submit his response to the initial complaint within 20 days, and a pre-trial hearing was set for late July.
Robert was named as a defendant in the lawsuit filed by Sandeep Rehal last year in New York Supreme Court.
Rehal said she was forced to set up Weinstein's love nest during the two years that she worked at the company, provide him with the shot of Caravject - for erectile dysfunction - that would be injected into his penis before sex and then clean up the aftermath of those encounters.
Weinstein denied the allegations, and claimed that Rehal was never his assistant in a response filed in April.
Also last week, Weinstein Co said that it plans to liquidate in bankruptcy, as it tries to resolve the civil lawsuits against former directors and officers.
Lawyers for Weinstein Co asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to convert the studio's bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 liquidation from the Chapter 11 case filed in March 2018, according to papers filed on May 14.
Following the announcement of Weinstein’s landmark settlement on Thursday, on Twitter, Judd made it abundantly clear she wasn’t among the claimants but insisted she'd be seeing him in court
More than 80 other woman have come forward to allege various degrees of wrongdoing against the once revered producer, including harassment and rape
Several rounds of mediation over the last 10 months have failed to resolve liability claims arising from Weinstein's alleged misconduct, the lawyers said.
A hearing on the conversion request is scheduled for June 4.
Weinstein, 67, fell from grace after more than 80 women, mostly young actresses and others in the movie business, accused him of sexual misconduct dating back decades.
His case helped launch the #MeToo movement, where dozens of powerful men in entertainment, politics and other fields were accused of sexual misconduct. Many lost their jobs.
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Lawyers for Weinstein Co said Chapter 7 was best because the company had sold nearly all its assets in a $289 million sale last July to private equity firm Lantern Capital Partners, and lacked enough liquidity to reorganize under Chapter 11.
They also said liquidation was the best means to resolve claims against the former directors and officers, taking into account the interests of their insurers.
Weinstein Co's plan to hire a law firm, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, to pursue claims it might have against the directors and officers drew two objections, including from New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Her office said hiring a firm with no prior involvement in the case might drag out negotiations on a possible global settlement, waste time that lawyers already spent and unnecessarily deplete the debtors' limited resources.
Weinstein has vehemently denied the slew of accusations which cite ‘non-consensual sexual activity’, but his legal woes have continued to mount
Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges arising from his having allegedly forcibly performed oral sex on a woman in his apartment in 2006 and raped another woman in a New York City hotel room in 2013.
Though Weinstein has been charged for assaulting the two women, prosecutors want jurors to hear from many of the dozens of other women whose allegations against Weinstein haven't led to criminal charges.
He has denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
Weinstein is currently free on $1 million bail until his trial commences.
It had been scheduled to begin June 3, but his defense team and prosecutors indicated in April that they need more time to sort through witness and evidence issues.
Jury selection is expected to take up to two weeks and testimony is set to last about a month.
