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Director James Toback Ordered to Pay $1.68 Billion to 40 Women in Sexual Misconduct Suit

Director James Toback was ordered on Wednesday to pay $1.68 billion to 40 women who accused the disgraced director of sexual assault.

After a seven-day trial in New York, James Toback was ordered on Wednesday to pay $1.68 billion to 40 women who accused the disgraced director of sexual assault. “We asked the jury very clearly to send a message to the entire industry that the #MeToo movement is unfinished and in some ways forgotten already, and that they needed to hold the line and let everyone from New York to Hollywood to Washington, D.C., and in between, know that this kind of conduct is not OK and will not be accepted, period,” lead counsel Brad Beckworth told the Los Angeles Times. Toback, who garnered an Oscar nomination for writing 1991’s Bugsy, previously denied the allegations following The Times ‘ report, telling Rolling Stone in 2017: “The idea that I would offer a part to anyone for any other reason than that he or she was gonna be the best of anyone I could find is so disgusting to me.”

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