Actor James Franco Shells Out $2.2M To Settle Sex Abuse Lawsuit

By John Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6037700

James Franco agreed to settle a 2019 lawsuit alleging that he coerced acting students into performing explicit sex scenes, with a huge sum of $2,235,000. 

The “127 Hours” is awaiting a judge’s approval to put the scandal that stalled out his once-thriving Hollywood career into the rearview.

In 2019, two of Franco’s acting students, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, alleged that the actor and his partner Vince Jolivette intimidated and sexually objectified female performers at their acting school.  

In a class action complaint, they accused the men of fraud for “engaged in widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behavior towards female students by sexualizing their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects.”

The women, who were paying $300 a month to attend the school, claimed female students who were willing to undress in front of the “Disaster Artist” star and his friends were given preferential treatment.  

If the settlement payment is accepted Tither-Kaplan would be paid out $670,500, and Gaal would receive $223,500. The rest of the $1,341,000 would be split amongst other members of the class action, and unclaimed money would be contributed to the National Women’s Center.  

Tither-Kaplan and Gaal would have to drop their claims without prejudice and allow Franco to continue to deny the allegations of the suit.  

“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 address the mistreatment of women in Hollywood,” the statement reads. “All agree on the need to make sure that no one in the entertainment industry — regardless of sex, race, religion, disability, ethnicity, background, gender or sexual orientation — faces discrimination, harassment or prejudice of any kind.”


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Kdub
Kdub
2 years ago

Typical Hollywood egotistical perverts…….

Nine Island Girl
Nine Island Girl
2 years ago

Why, oh why would anyone listen, buy from or idolize any of these crazies from Hollyweird???? Parents, have your children get real job that actually contribute something to society.
There’s still a couple of sane people with dignity in that industry. The rest are all uneducated clowns who most definitely did the “casting couch” Sick!

Original Anna
Original Anna
2 years ago

The key words are the girls who agreed which makes it voluntary. Leave the class if you don’t want to do it. Acting requires a lot of different situations being played out and some girls will play certain scenes and some won’t play certain scenes. However if it is true I would not be interested in playing what I would consider porn or naked scenes and let the teachers know verbally. Was this “training” announced in the curriculum and why would Franco consider these “acting” scenes necessary for any acting classes. So why does Franco have to ability to deny the accusations if these girls have proof, it should not be a settlement but a crime, unless the complainers figured out they ain’t actresses and figured out another way to make money and not work for it.

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