Ex- Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. member withdraws suit against Golden Globes group

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Set us as preferred The four-year legal battle of a former member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.who sued the organization behind the Golden Globes over allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination and breach of contract, has ended.Husam “Sam” Asi, a long-standing member of the HFPA who had been expelled from the group in 2022, filed to settle and dismiss his lawsuit with prejudice on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.Asi was not immediately available for comment.“The HFPA is pleased to resolve its litigation with Dr.

Asi on mutually agreeable terms and wishes Dr.Asi the best in his future endeavors,” said a spokesperson for the HFPA in a statement to The Times.Asi sued the HFPA in May 2022, three months after the organization put him on probation following allegations of sexual misconduct that were first reported in the Wrap, prompting a third-party investigation into him.At the time, he denied the misconduct allegations, calling them baseless.

“Of course, I deny them, I deny them all, they are ludicrously absurd,” he told The Times then.Asi represented the United Kingdom and the Middle East for the association from 2010 to 2022 and was a Palestinian journalist for the BBC Arabic service and a columnist for pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.In his lawsuit, he alleged that the HFPA was “weaponizing false sexual misconduct allegations” in retaliation for “his attempts to hold it accountable.”According to his lawsuit, Asi said he had “been subjected to and endured a pattern of sexual harassment, hostile behavior, racial epithets and discrimination, and retaliatory conduct, none of which was ever investigated or handled according to HFPA’s bylaws and procedures.”Asi further alleged that the organization issued a news release announcing that it...