Statement from Alki David, CEO of FilmOn Networks:
“How is it justice if I’m not allowed to present any defense at all? No witnesses. No evidence. Gloria Allred and Nathan Goldberg knew they had a losing case against me and my companies and their only option — with so much contingency money on the table — was to cheat. In fact, they took the judge’s bias, or agenda, or whatever it was, as nothing less than a license to lie.
$58 million dollars is an absurd number, designed only to generate headlines. It is nothing but a PR stunt, a marketing scheme to bring Alled and daughter Lisa Bloom more clients and bulldoze future juries. Well, now that’s backfiring on them as people start to look at what’s really going on here.
This trial proves that not only is the system broken. It’s in a state of emergency. It’s an emergency for employment law, for business and innovation in the state of California. It’s an emergency for justice.
In his closing arguments, Goldberg led the jury to believe I didn’t call any witnesses by choice. The truth is the judge blocked every possible witness I wanted to call, even to rebut new lies from the plaintiff and her witnesses.
I’ll say it again to all of you–as I was prevented from saying in court–I never touched Mahim Khan inappropriately. I never sexually harassed her or any of my employees. We have evidence that she conspired with other accusers after learning about a previous sealed settlement. Both Allred and Bloom have violated court orders related to this settlement. We have evidence that among this network of accusers Allred and Bloom assembled and divided up, money and jobs were offered to witnesses, and demands were made to recruit more accusers.
We caught Khan and her witnesses in obvious lies that would have impeached them in front of the jury if the judge hadn’t denied every legitimate move we made at defense. We also have a police report and texts that show Khan literally threatened the baby of one of my witnesses.
With me unable to mount any defense, the plaintiff’s lies grew in number, sprouted embellishments, even contradicted themselves. Why was the judge so determined to block me from presenting any defense whatsoever? Why did she ignore egregious, unethical, even illegal behavior by the plaintiff and her attorneys? Everyone should be asking these questions.
Billionaire Alki David was hit with more than $58 million in damages after a jury found him liable for battery, sexual battery and sexual harassment against a former employee in the latest lawsuit targeting the owner of several media companies, the plaintiff’s attorney said.
Jurors on Monday awarded $50 million in punitive damages to Mahim Khan, a former production assistant who worked at his Los Angeles-based firms, attorney Gloria Allred said.
The same panel last week awarded $8.25 million in compensatory damages.
Khan alleged in her lawsuit that in 2014 David thrust his pelvis into her face and simulated oral sex. Allred disclosed the name of her client in a news release.
“I hope the punitive damages verdict sends a message to Alki David to never, ever think of violating another woman’s body,” Khan said in a statement provided by Allred’s office.
David plans an appeal. In a statement Monday, he denied the claim and accused the judge of blocking witnesses who would have exonerated him.
“This trial proves that not only is the system broken. It’s in a state of emergency. It’s an emergency for employment law, for business and innovation in the state of California,” the statement said.
Alki David he was born In Nigeria his parents from Cyprus and lives here in the UK. David offered $1m to anyone who was foolhardy enough to streak in front of President Obama last year. He was taken up on his challenge by a Philadelphia man. There was some dispute over whether the President had seen him but David apparently settled for a $100,000 payout. David, who has appeared as heavies and the like in films or TV series in Britain, runs FilmOn, a patented live-streaming Internet business, allowing access to live HDTV streaming via PCs, televisions and cell phones. London-based FilmOn listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange in February 2009 valued at £587m. David had a controlling 80% stake. David is a member of the prominent Cypriot Leventis family. His late father, Andrew A David, was the managing director of the Leventis-David group, a family business which owns bottling plants for Coca-Cola in 28 countries. Second Richest is Easy Jet founderSir Stelios Haji –Ioannou (Photo below) at number 72 with a value of £1,015 million
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