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Timothy Hutton & ‘Leverage’ Producers Reach Settlement Over Oscar Winner Being Ditched From Reboot After 1983 Rape Claims; Police Never Charged Actor – Update
Timothy Hutton has sued Leverage producer Electric Entertainment for breach of contract.
Scheduled to go to trial on February 10 next year over the Oscar winner being booted from the 2021 reboot of the TNT crime drama because of sexual assault allegations, the parties have reached a settlement, a December 2 filing by Hutton’s Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir lawyers in LA Superior Court states. However, if there are “satisfactory completion of specified terms” over the next “45 days,” a “request for dismissal” will be filed on January 15 for the judge signs off on the overall deal, then Hutton will receive eight-figure payout from the suit, I hear. Sidestepping the actor’s multi-million dollar pay-or-play contract, Electric insisted that Hutton’s pink slipping was warranted because he never properly informed them of the accusations stemming from claims of a 1983 rape in a Vancouver hotel room.
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