Shamed Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein has reached a tentative compensation deal of $44 million to resolve more than a dozen civil lawsuit filed by different women for sexual misconduct.
According to an attorney, he told NBC News that the agreement was reached on Thursday at a hearing in US Bankruptcy court in Delaware, where the amount of the proposed settlement wasn't disclosed.
Robert Feinstein, an attorney for the committee of unsecured creditors of Weinstein Company, a Movie studio founded by the accused and his brother Bob Weinstein in 2005, told the US bankruptcy court Judge Mary Walrath that the parties planned on meeting the case's mediator for finalization.
Feinstein said that the end goal is to do a global settlement of the class action and count claims against the Weinstein company..
I don't want to give the likely outcome because there's still some challenges to the plan, he added, but because the offer was globally approved by the mediation parties I think we owe it to give it a try, he continued.
The proposed deal would settle the woman $30 million, and the remaining to cover legal fees.
More than 15 misconduct lawsuit filed against Harvey Weinstein or the company but he has since denied the allegations made against him and he is due to go on trail in New York in September.
