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Atty Slams Weinstein Victim Bid For Ch. 11 Fees As Front
Law360 (April 29, 2021, 8:30 PM EDT) The attorney for an alleged victim of convicted rapist and disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein ripped another accuser s request for $1.2 million in compensation and fees from The Weinstein Company s bankruptcy estate, arguing Thursday the second woman s lawyers were using her as a front in an effort to recover from a failed class-action settlement.
Thomas P. Giuffra of Rheingold Giuffra Ruffo & Plotkin LLP, representing Weinstein accuser Alexandra Canosa, argued that Louisette Geiss, another accuser and co-chair of the unsecured creditors committee in The Weinstein Company s Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was requesting compensation for services rendered to steer money to her attorneys.
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(Reuters) - A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Monday approved The Weinstein Co’s liquidation plan, which sets aside $17 million for women who accused co-founder Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.
Judge Mary Walrath in Wilmington, Delaware announced her ruling at the conclusion of a remote hearing. She overruled an objection from a handful of women who are looking to pursue appeals of their claims outside of bankruptcy court.
She noted that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy “have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense . although it’s clear that money will never give them that.”