Posted on 06/07/2022 2:02:26 PM PDT by algore
Disgraced Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein is suing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for $5 million plus interest over a 2019 crash in which he flipped a Jeep Wrangler while trying to avoid a deer.
Lawyers for the now-incarcerated mogul filed the suit in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday, claiming the car company provided him with an 'unreasonably dangerous' car in exchange for product placement in one of his films.
Then when he was driving in suburban Bedford, New York on August 17, 2019, his 2017 his 2017 Jeep Wrangler 'failed to decelerate despite Weinstein's application of the vehicle's braking system' as he approached a deer.
He then reportedly swerved to avoid the deer, the lawsuit claims, causing the vehicle to flip over - leaving him 'catastrophically injured and rendered paralyzed' and with 'significant and continuing conscious pain and suffering.'
Weinstein, 70, underwent back surgery that December, and was seen hunched over a walker as he stood trial in New York for sexual assault.
He now claims in the court documents that Chrysler executives were negligent in the crash, writing that they failed to inspect, maintain and repair the Jeep before the crash - about 40 miles north of Manhattan.
Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for sexual assault and rape as he also awaits trial in Los Angeles on other alleged sex crimes from 2004 to 2013.
He has pleaded not guilty to those charges, and has denied any non-consensual sexual encounters.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
One would think that at least several...if not more than several...of his victims have gotten jury awards in civil actions. and I’d wager that there are more who haven’t brought legal action.If I’m correct then I think that *they* would hope he prevails...the cash could go directly to them.
Rural custom.
Helping my in-laws move a few years ago, my father in law hooked his old CJ-5 to a car hauler trailer loaded with a 65 Mustang and a whole slew of other stuff.
I had never towed a large trailer before and towing a trailer with a CJ-5 isn’t recommended.
We made it but…
Finally something from DM that might be true.
I guess these degenerates will never sue back the feminists but keep in their plantation scam camp suing third parties
Reminds me of Bill Clinton suing right winger for the very legislation he at the boot of his feminist wife enacted...
Five mill will buy a lot of drugs and snatch in prison.
So, when it comes time to prove that he suffered loss of income, is he going to argue that the injuries made it impossible for him to sexually assault young actresses in order to perform his job duties?
My neighbor while I was in HS had built small block Chevy in his Hi-hood. Thing was scary fast on the street. But it worked perfect for stretching barb wire fence between our pastures.
He offered to let me to drive to school so I could do the body work on it (in those days, autobody was still taught in HS). I declined as I had no interest in being a body and fender guy.
Besides, I had my ‘65 HiPro Mustang, so it wasn’t like a needed a hot rod.
My favorite bumper sticker, from thirty years ago, was on a beat up, rusted pickup outside an oyster shucking house:
“Orgasm Donor”
Ha-Ha! YOu beat me to it. That was my first thought.
Now I have a nice little Ear Worm for the rest of the day.
That’s a good one. And how true!
Doh, the stuff that buys me beer
Re, the guy who sells me beer
Mi, the guy that drinks the beer
Fa, a long run to get beer
So, let’s have another beer
La, let’s have another beer
Ti, no thanks I’m drinking beer
and that brings us back to Doh...
LOL
Is it just me or is everything that was good “thirty years ago (or more)?”
I can’t think of a really inspiring or memorable bumper sticker that’s more recent than that.
Just for clarity, a 2017 model, being driven in late 2019, so likely in his care and control for going on 3 years, it’s Jeep’s fault that something happened...
Contingency. These cases usually settle
My theory from the start is that Harvey Weinstein committed the unpardonable sin of sexually harassing Malia Obama. She interned for him before the scandal erupted. He learned the hard way that even the king of Hollywood is not all-powerful. Fewer have fallen from such heights of glory and splendor to depths of shame and pain.
Yeah, they still had shop class when I was in HS and a gun range. :)
And real PE classes where you had to take showers or get a swat from the coach
The disgraced Hollywood mogul escaped injury when he crashed his 2017 Jeep in Westchester County, law enforcement sources told The Post on Monday.
Weinstein, 67, was driving through Bedford when he smashed into a tree along Bedford Center Road near Succabone Road around 8:55 a.m. on Aug. 17, sources said.
Weinstein told cops he swerved to avoid a deer, sources said.
See #39
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