UNITED STATES
Yahoo Celebrity
October 3, 2019
By Taryn Ryder
James Franco was named in a lawsuit Thursday by two former students, Toni Gaal and Sarah Tither-Kaplan, who claim they were sexually exploited at his acting school, Studio 4. Tither-Kaplan is one of the women who publicly accused the actor of inappropriate behavior in 2018. A lawyer for Franco is calling it a “publicity seeking lawsuit.”
According to documents obtained by the New York Times, Gaal and Tither-Kaplan allege Franco and his partners “engaged in widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behavior towards female students by sexualizing their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects.”
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