James Franco Is Settling Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit for Over $2.2 Million Dollars

James Franco is settling.

The 43-year-old The Disaster Artist actor and associated entities have agreed on a settlement following a lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct, THR reported Wednesday (June 30).

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James Franco agree to pay $2,235,000 to resolve the lawsuit, which alleged that the actor pushed his acting students into performing in increasingly explicit sex scenes on camera.

The deal is now being submitted to a Los Angeles judge for approval.

Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal are two former students from his acting class, and they led the lawsuit back in October of last year.

The specifics of the settlement were outlined in the legal paperwork: “Here, Tither-Kaplan is getting $670,500 minus $223,500 less in fees going to the lawyers. Gaal will get $223,500 minus $74,500 to the lawyers. And the other students would get almost two-thirds of the remaining pot of $1.341 million with the lawyers total take being around $827,000.”

He has also agreed to “non-economic” terms for the individual plaintiffs, although that is currently the subject of a motion to seal, via THR‘s report.

Any unclaimed money will go to the National Women’s Law Center.

“While Defendants continue to deny the allegations in the Complaint, they acknowledge that Plaintiffs have raised important issues; and all parties strongly believe that now is a critical time to focus on addressing the mistreatment of women in Hollywood. All agree on the need to make sure that no one in the entertainment industry — regardless of race, religion, disability, ethnicity, background, gender or sexual orientation — faces discrimination, harassment or prejudice of any kind,” a statement reads from the settlement.

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