American former film
producer, Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse accusers agrees to his $44 million
settlement tentatively.
The proposed agreement was
disclosed in court on Thursday, following bankruptcy. The agreement is said to
be separate from the criminal charges against Harvey Weinstein in New York.
The movie mogul accused of
sexual crimes by many women discussed the agreement at a hearing in U.S.
Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware, where the amount of the proposed
settlement wasn’t disclosed.
The Wall Street Journal
says $30 million would be paid to the plaintiffs, with the remaining $14
million used to pay legal fees … with funds coming from insurance policies.
The agreement comes more
than a year and a half after accusations against the disgraced mogul first
surfaced. Actresses including Ashley Judd, Paz de la Huerta and Lupita Nyong’o
all accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct.
Robert Feinstein, an
attorney for the committee of unsecured creditors of Weinstein Co., the
independent movie studio founded in 2005 by Weinstein and his brother, Bob
Weinstein, told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath that the parties planned to
meet with the case’s mediator next week to finalize details.
Under the terms of the
proposed settlement, which would be paid through insurance funds, no party
would admit wrongdoing, NBCnews reported. The arrangement is separate from
criminal charges against Weinstein in New York, to which he has pleaded not
guilty.
The 67 year old co-founded
of the entertainment company Miramax ‘s alleged behavior helped spark the
#MeToo movement. Weinstein denies all of the civil and criminal allegations,
his attorneys have said.
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