James Franco is settling his sexual misconduct lawsuit for over $2million (£1.45million), according to reports.The Deuce actor and his partners at his acting school Playhouse West Studio 4 – which opened in 2014 but closed three years later – were sued in October 2019 by Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal.
They claimed defendants ‘engaged in widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behaviour towards female students by sexualising their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects’.
In 2020, Franco alleged the pair were ‘attention-hungry’ and made false and inflammatory’ claims for publicity. He has now agreed on a settlement for his two accusers.
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