Vin Diesel won’t face additional litigation in Los Angeles within the sexual battery lawsuit a former assistant filed in opposition to the “Quick & Livid” star two years in the past.
An L.A. County Superior Court docket decide on Wednesday dismissed the criticism from Diesel’s accuser, Asta Jonasson, citing a technicality.
Jonasson mentioned in her lawsuit, filed in December 2023, that she served as Diesel’s assistant in 2010 in the course of the filming of “Quick 5” in Atlanta and alleged the actor sexually assaulted her in a resort room.
Her lawsuit raised 10 claims, together with sexual battery, retaliation and a number of violations of California’s Honest Employment and Housing Act. The criticism additionally sought motion in opposition to Diesel’s One Race Movies manufacturing firm and its president, Samantha Vincent, Diesel’s sister.
Choose Daniel M. Crowley referred to as Jonasson’s argument “untenable” and in battle with the intention of the state’s authorized code in his dismissal doc. Additionally, because the sexual assault is alleged to have occurred in Georgia, the decide mentioned California was not the correct jurisdiction by which to file the criticism.
Crowley mentioned that California legislation couldn’t be “utilized to any of Plaintiff’s claims.”
The case was set to go to trial in February previous to Wednesday’s determination. Jonasson’s lawyer Matthew T. Hale mentioned in an announcement Wednesday that “the Court docket didn’t resolve something concerning the reality of Ms. Jonasson’s allegations.”
“The ruling was primarily based on a authorized technicality,” Hale mentioned. “We disagree with the ruling, and we’re assessing subsequent steps.”
A authorized consultant for Diesel didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Wednesday.
In her criticism, Jonasson alleged Diesel groped her, pinned her to a wall and put her hand on his genitals with out her consent in the course of the resort room encounter. The 58-year-old actor, via lawyer Bryan Freedman, denied the allegations shortly after Jonasson filed her criticism.
“That is the primary he has ever heard about this greater than 13-year-old declare made by a purportedly nine-day worker,” Freedman mentioned. “There may be clear proof which utterly refutes these outlandish allegations.”
