{"id":263511,"date":"2018-12-13T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/eliza-dushku-reaches-9-5-million-settlement-with-cbs-over-harassment-claims-report\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:23:22","slug":"eliza-dushku-reaches-9-5-million-settlement-with-cbs-over-harassment-claims-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/eliza-dushku-reaches-9-5-million-settlement-with-cbs-over-harassment-claims-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliza Dushku Reaches $9.5 Million Settlement With CBS Over Harassment Claims: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eliza Dushku<\/a><\/strong>received a $9.5 million dollar settlement from CBS for alleged sexual misconduct and wrongful termination, according to\u00a0a new report released by the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the lengthy article<\/a>, the publication details the alleged inappropriate and sexual remarks made by\u00a0Bull\u00a0<\/em>star\u00a0Michael Weatherly<\/strong> to his co-star Eliza, which they learned about from a draft of the investigation report. (In August, the CBS Corporation board hired external law firms to conduct an investigation into sexual misconduct claims made against\u00a0Les Moonves<\/strong> as well as “cultural issues at all levels of CBS.”)<\/p>\n

According to the New York Times<\/em>, Dusku\u00a0believed his “behavior was contagious” and created an unhealthy work space, which motivated her to speak to the show’s writer\u00a0Glenn Gordon Caron<\/strong>. Together, they confronted Weatherly about his sexual remarks.<\/p>\n

However, rather than solving the problem, it appears Caron wrote her off the show. He denied to the\u00a0The New York Times<\/em> that this action “was in any way punitive.”<\/p>\n

Similarly, Weatherly said he had no influence over the\u00a0decision to dismiss Dushku. “It’s my recollection that I didn’t tell anyone how they should do their job regarding the hiring or firing of anybody,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Eliza later entered into mediation with CBS regarding her sudden dismissal from the show, despite having plans to stay on for more seasons. During mediation, the report states her claims against Weatherly were confirmed by outtakes from the series, which the N<\/em>ew York Times<\/em> said\u00a0“captured some of the harassment on film.”<\/p>\n

In January 2018, the actress was paid roughly $9.5 million dollars in the confidential settlement to compensate for “what Ms. Dushku would have earned if she had stayed on as a cast member for four seasons,” according to the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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And in a statement released to the\u00a0NYT<\/em> on Wednesday, CBS confirmed the existence of a settlement, but did not disclose a specific dollar amount. The network also “pledged to improve working conditions.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr. Weatherly has since apologized for his actions on the set. He told the\u00a0NYT<\/em>, “During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script.\u00a0When Eliza told me that she wasn’t comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized. After reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza.”<\/p>\n

Eliza cannot speak about the settlement and declined to offer comment to the New York Times<\/em>, but, according to the newspaper, told the investigators, “My story is true and it’s really affected me.”<\/p>\n

E! News has reached out to reps for Eliza Dushku and CBS for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Amanda Edwards\/WireImage Eliza Dushkureceived a $9.5 million dollar settlement from CBS for alleged sexual misconduct and wrongful termination, according to\u00a0a new report released by the\u00a0New York Times. In the lengthy article, the publication details the alleged inappropriate and sexual remarks made by\u00a0Bull\u00a0star\u00a0Michael Weatherly to his co-star Eliza, which they learned about from a draft of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 00:43:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}