New York: Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has reached a USD 25 million settlement with dozens of his alleged sexual misconduct victims, one of the women's lawyers told AFP on Wednesday. The cash will be shared among more than 30 actresses and former employees who have sued the 67-year-old producer for offenses ranging from sexual harassment to rape. Aaron Filler, an attorney for "Boardwalk Empire" actress Paz de la Huerta, told AFP he expected his client, who accused Weinstein of raping her in 2010, to be part of the settlement. Weinstein will not have to admit wrongdoing or pay from his own pocket, celebrity news portal TMZ said, with the bill instead being met by insurers for his bankrupt former movie studio, The Weinstein Company. The deal will have to be signed by all parties and get court approval to resolve almost every misconduct lawsuit brought against him since 2017 and insulate company directors from future liability. Weinstein's accusers include some of the … [Read more...] about Disgraced Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein Agrees to $25 Million Settlement with Accusers
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Grief over diabetic boy’s manslaughter
“I feel immense pain as if someone stabbed me in my heart,” the mother wrote in a victim impact statement read out in the District Court on Thursday. The statements of the parents – who can’t be named – were read out by a support person at the sentence hearing of Chinese self-help practitioner Hong Chi Xiao. A jury in October found the 56-year-old guilty of manslaughter for breaching the duty of care he owed the boy through gross negligence. Chinese healer Hong Chi Xiao will be sentenced on Friday. Picture: Seven NewsSource:Channel 7 The boy’s last insulin injection to treat his type 1 diabetes came on the first day of a week-long “radical” Chinese slapping and stretching therapy workshop in April 2015. His relatives said Xiao instructed them to stop the regular blood glucose tests and insulin injections. He told them the boy’s increased vomiting showed toxins were leaving his body. In his statement, the boy’s father said … [Read more...] about Grief over diabetic boy’s manslaughter
Bill introduced in LS to sentence abusers of senior citizens to six months in jail
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Aussie family’s sad posts about volcano eruption dead
The aunt of Winona, 17, and her brother Jesse, 19, posted on Facebook that while “Jesse has been found alive” they “don’t believe … Kristine, Anthony and Winona … have survived”. Anthony Langford’s brother John and two other family members have flown to New Zealand to help search for any of the family. Friends of the North Sydney family posted sympathetic comments to a Facebook photo the aunt put online. The Langfords’ extended family is mourning the tragic passing of Winona, bottom left, Kristine, second left, and Anthony, right. Jesse, 19, second right, is in hospital.Source:Facebook The assumed deaths would bring to the death toll of Australians in the New Zealand tragedy to 12. Speaking to the media in Melbourne on Thursday, the Prime Minister said 24 Australians and four permanent residents had been caught up in the volcanic eruption. He said five Australians were evacuated to hospitals on home soil overnight and another … [Read more...] about Aussie family’s sad posts about volcano eruption dead
On Cam, Cops Manhandle Students as Mass Protests Against Fee Hike Rock JNU; Minister Stuck for Over 6 Hours
New Delhi: Thousands of students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) clashed with police on Monday as their protest over fee hike on the varsity's convocation day escalated, forcing HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' to stay inside the AICTE premises for over six hours. The students were protesting near the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), the venue for varsity's third convocation. The protests started in the morning and escalated as the day progressed with angry crowds of students trying to push through a wall of anti-riot police personnel to approach the venue. Several blockades put up by the police were also broken by the protesting students, who started their march towards the AICTE, about 3 km away from the university's south Delhi campus, around 11.30 am. They were stopped a short distance away from the AICTE auditorium, where Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu was addressing the university's convocation. Water cannons were used to disperse the protestors … [Read more...] about On Cam, Cops Manhandle Students as Mass Protests Against Fee Hike Rock JNU; Minister Stuck for Over 6 Hours
