Woman Rejects Settlement, Sues Weinstein Over Sex Assault
December 20, 2019
4:09 pm
A woman who alleges disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her when she was 16 filed suit against him on Thursday and rejected a settlement reached by other accusers.
Kaja Sokola said the $25 million settlement with dozens of women, designed to resolve almost every misconduct lawsuit brought against Weinstein, is neither fair nor just.
“Therefore, today I am filing my own case, in my own name,” Sokola, 33, said in a statement issued through her lawyer.
Sokola, a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Poland, said she originally included her case under a pseudonym as part of a 2018 …
