Actor James Franco Reaches $2 Million Settlement In Class-Action Suit Alleging Sexual Exploitation Of Female Students

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Actor James Franco and two other men have reached a $2.2 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit alleging that female students at Studio 4 Film School were sexually exploited by the three men, according to court papers obtained Wednesday.

The suit was filed in 2019 by two former students, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, in Los Angeles Superior Court. The allegations included fraud, sexual harassment and discrimination, as well as civil rights violations.

In their suit, Tither-Kaplan and Gaal stated that they attended the now closed Studio 4 school, and that they had hoped to get work through the defendants’ production companies.

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