Photo: Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage According to THR, James Franco and “associated entities” will end up paying over $2 million to resolve a recent putative class-action lawsuit against the actor by former students of his at the Studio 4 Film School in New York and Los Angeles.
Today, Franco and associated entities have agreed to pay $2,235,000 to resolve the lawsuit, according to THR, the terms of which necessitate that Tither-Kaplan and Gaal release their claims, and that the other students involved in the class suit release any fraud claims. A Los Angeles judge will now have to decide whether or not to sign off on the proposed settlement.
“While Defendants continue to deny the allegations in the Complaint, they acknowledge that Plaintiffs have raised important issues; and all parties strongly believe that now is a critical time to focus on addressing the mistreatment of women in Hollywood. All agree on the need to make sure that no one in the entertainment industry — regardless of race, religion, disability, ethnicity, background, gender or sexual orientation — faces discrimination, harassment or prejudice of any kind.
Franco originally denied the accusations during a 2018 appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, saying: In my life, I pride myself on taking responsibility for things that I’ve done. I have to do that to maintain my well-being. I do it whenever I know that there’s something wrong or needs to be changed. I make it a point to do it. The things that I heard that were on Twitter are not accurate. But I completely support people coming out and being able to have a voice because they didn’t have a voice for so long, so I don’t want to shut them down in any way.
Meanwhile, millions of sexually abused children will never see a penny from a rich ,sexual predator. Think of them today. There are so many broken lives because of pieces of crap that use sex to harm .
Good. Creep.
I took that class and got a 'D'