James Franco is settling. A settlement deal has been reached in a 2019 lawsuit alleging that the 42-year-old actor intimidated his students into sexual situations at the acting school he founded, according to Variety on Sunday (February 21).
In a joint status report, two of the actor’s former students at his Studio 4 school, which is no longer running, agreed to drop their claims.
The sexual exploitation claims are being dismissed without prejudice, meaning they can be re-filed. Fraud allegations included in the suit will be subject to limited release.
It is not known how much money was involved in the settlement deal. In the class-action suit, the former students claimed that James forced his students to perform explicit sex scenes on
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