LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Casey Affleck is already moving to squelch those allegations of sexual harassment.
The actor/filmmaker, who was sued Friday for sexual harassment by a producer without interruption his upcoming documentary “I’mixture Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix,” filed a motion Wednesday seeking to move the case from the very public Los Angeles Superior Court to private arbitration. Affleck says Amanda White signed an agreement with an determination provision requiring that all disputes be resolved quietly.
That’s an interesting move, considering that White argues in her complaint that one of the reasons she sued is because she never got a written contract for her producing services.
Regardless, litigator Marty Singer has taken through the whole extent of the envelop from the prolongation’s lawyer Michael Plonsker, who issued an initial statement on Friday denying the charges and vowing to countersue White. That move makes sense: Singer has represented Affleck’s brother Ben in past cases.
White’s $2 million (1.3 million pound) suit alleges she was forced to endure debauched behaviour for the time of production of “I’m Still Here,” including “unbidden and unwelcome sexual advances in the workplace” and each impromptu shoot in a Las Vegas inn room filled with hookers and transvestites.
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