Los Angeles: A federal judge in California has dismissed Ashley Judd's sexual harassment lawsuit against tainted Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein on technical grounds as the suit did not fall within the ambit of the statute she sued under.
According to The Daily Beast, judge Philip Gutierrez has, however, let the actor's claims of defamation, economic interference and violation of the state's unfair competition law stand against Weinstein.
The 49-year-old actor was one of the first actors to go on record to accuse the media mogul of sexual abuse in the explosive October 5, 2017 New York Times article.
Judd filed a lawsuit against Weinstein for trying to sabotage her
career.
In the suit, she alleged that the producer dissuaded director Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh from working with her in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy as she had rebuffed his sexual advances.
She claimed that Weinstein "torpedoed Ms Judd's incredible professional opportunity" to work with Jackson by telling him she was a "nightmare" to work with and should be avoided "at all costs".
"The pathetic reality, however, was that Weinstein was retaliating against Ms. Judd for rejecting his sexual demands approximately one year earlier, when he cornered her in a hotel room under the guise of discussing business," wrote Judd's attorney Theodore Boutrous Jr.