Kevin Costner
Will get Half Of ‘Horizon 2’ Stunt Performer Lawsuit Tossed …
Lawyer Rips Accuser
Revealed
Kevin Costner tried to get a lawsuit towards him over an alleged unscripted rape scene tossed out of courtroom … it wasn’t thrown out fully, however a few chunk is now gone.
In line with new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, the choose within the case denied his movement to throw out all 10 of Devyn LaBella‘s claims … and as an alternative tossed two.
A type of concerned sexual harassment and the opposite concerned an alleged violation of the Bane Act, which is meant to fight hate crimes.
Costner’s lawyer, Marty Singer, tells TMZ … “We had been happy to study that the Court docket granted our anti-SLAPP movement partly, dismissing two of the plaintiff’s claims (together with one among her claims for sexual harassment).”
He continues … “Whereas we had been disillusioned with the Court docket’s choice to permit her remaining causes of motion to proceed, the proof is obvious that they don’t have any authorized or factual benefit, and we plan to attraction the Court docket’s choice promptly. Despite the plaintiff’s outlandish allegations, there was by no means any ‘simulated rape,’ ‘simulated sex’ or sexual harassment – and completely no retaliation. Reasonably, she is looking for tens of millions of {dollars} for agreeing to take part within the rehearsal of a single, benign shot that even she admits was defined to her upfront. We are going to proceed to combat for the reality and we’re extraordinarily assured we are going to prevail.”
As we have instructed you … LaBella sued again in Could, claiming she was compelled to take part in an unscripted and unscheduled rape scene on the set of the Western movie sequence, “Horizon.”
Kevin’s insisted there was NO violent rape scene on his set … and he is referred to as the lawsuit a shake down.
TMZ broke the story … Kevin filed a movement to dismiss the lawsuit again in August … however the choose’s ruling did not come down till at this time.