The actor’s complaint describes a sequence of events about how a simple birthday greeting to a teenager in Washington state in 2020 turned into a nightmare.
Almost two years after Joseph Gatt was arrested by Los Angeles police on now-dismissed charges of engaging in “sexually explicit online communications with a minor across state lines,” the actor game of Thrones faces the police, the city of Los Angeles and the District Attorney’s office.
In a $40 million lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles, Gatt alleges he was falsely labeled a serial pedophile. To that end, he and his attorneys have brought to court a sordid saga of a 16-year-old “obsessed fan,” a botched police investigation and a now-former city prosecutor with alleged “personal animosity” toward the actor. .
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Joseph Gatt’s million-dollar complaint against the city of Los Angeles
The constitutional rights violation complaint comes six weeks after a Los Angeles judge dismissed the felony case against Gatt “without prejudice” on the advice of prosecutors. Having lost his reputation, his freedom of speech (for a time), and his career, the actor who played Thenn Warg in season 4 of Game of Thrones wants his own day in court and wants the overwhelming experience he experienced to come out. light in public.
The British-born actor’s complaint describes a terrifying sequence of events about how Gatt’s simple birthday greeting to a teenager in Washington in 2020 turned into a raid on the actor’s home in April 2022, his arrest and his apparent silencing as a condition of bail.
“The arrest and charges against Mr. Gatt, for which he was branded by the Los Angeles District Attorney and the Los Angeles Police Department as a serial pedophile, were based on fabricated evidence.”said one of Gatt’s lawyers.
“Twenty months later, when the fabricated evidence was finally revealed to Mr. Gatt and Mr. Gatt’s forensic expert was prepared to expose the truth in open court, the Los Angeles District Attorney voluntarily dismissed the criminal complaint. Gatt, however, had already lost his community, his acting career, and his personal reputation. “We look forward to recovering Mr Gatt’s enormous losses in court.”
Source: Ambito
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