Hollywood directors son goes after water polo star who accused him of heinous sex attacks underwater
The embattled son of a Hollywood director is fighting back against the water polo star who accused him of disgusting underwater sex attacks.Lucca Van der Woude’s legal team filed a motion to strike large swaths of accuser Aidan Romain’s complaint, according to court documents obtained by the California Post.His legal team marked 72 sections of Romain’s complaint to be stricken from the record for “groundless and irrelevant references to highly disparaging comments, news articles, sealed and confidential records of juvenile proceedings,” and for allegedly disclosing confidential student records.“The Legislature has erected the strongest possible confidentiality protections around juvenile court proceedings and records,” Van Der Woude’s attorneys wrote in court papers filed Tuesday with Judge Lauren A.R.
Lofton before an Aug.6 hearing.
“Plaintiff has chosen to weaponize those records, attaching them as exhibits to a publicly filed verified complaint.”In the complaint, Romain accuses Van der Woude of grabbing his butt and inserting his finger in it.He also accuses Van der Woude and other teammates of racism against him, saying there were multiple instances in which he was racially targeted and called slurs, including a short form of the N-word.Van der Woude was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault in February at the elite Harvard-Westlake school he attended with Romain.On November 7, 2024, he was admitted to juvenile court for sexual penetration with a foreign object against a minor under a plea deal; the charge involving Aidan was later dropped.One of the key parts of the complaint Van der Woude is looking to strike is a part of the reporting within the complaint from the Orange County Register that says Van der Woude “admitted in Los Angeles County Juvenile Division Court … to sexual penetration with a foreign object (digital penetration) against a minor” as part of a plea agreement with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s of...