Jury Orders James Toback to Pay $1.68B to 40 Women in Sexual Assault Trial
Director James Toback — among the first Hollywood men to be accused in the #MeToo movement — has been ordered to pay $1.68 billion to 40 women for sexual assault and other kinds of abuse.
A New York jury on Wednesday awarded the women $280 million in compensatory damages and $1.4 billion in punitive damages, intended to punish Toback for malicious conduct.
Toback, who helmed the films Black and White (1999) and Two Girls and a Guy (1998) and was nominated for an Oscar for writing the Warren Beatty film Bugsy (1991), didn’t mount a defense at the trial and wasn’t represented by a lawyer. The court in January issued a default judgment, reserved for cases in which the defendant fails to appear.
When allegations of pervasive sexual harassment first surfaced in a report from the Los Angeles Times in which more than 30 women came forward, Toback denied ever meeting most of the accusers. He also claimed...
A New York jury on Wednesday awarded the women $280 million in compensatory damages and $1.4 billion in punitive damages, intended to punish Toback for malicious conduct.
Toback, who helmed the films Black and White (1999) and Two Girls and a Guy (1998) and was nominated for an Oscar for writing the Warren Beatty film Bugsy (1991), didn’t mount a defense at the trial and wasn’t represented by a lawyer. The court in January issued a default judgment, reserved for cases in which the defendant fails to appear.
When allegations of pervasive sexual harassment first surfaced in a report from the Los Angeles Times in which more than 30 women came forward, Toback denied ever meeting most of the accusers. He also claimed...
- 10/04/2025
- di Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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