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Rose McGowan's RICO Lawsuit Against Harvey Weinstein & His Legal Team Has Been Dismissed

Rose McGowan's RICO Lawsuit Against Harvey Weinstein & His Legal Team Has Been Dismissed

Rose McGowan‘s racketeering lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and his lawyers has been dismissed by a federal judge.

The decision comes after Rose fired her attorneys and missed a court-ordered briefing deadline, per Variety.

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The Charmed actress filed a RICO lawsuit against the disgraced producer back in October 2019 as well as his attorneys David Boies and Lisa Bloom.

She claimed that they had crafted an elaborate scheme to spy on her and stop her from coming forward with allegations against Harvey, which she first made public in 2016, and accused them of a “pattern of racketeering.”

Judge Otis D. Wright dismissed most of her claims in December 2020, but she was permitted to proceed with two fraud claims and given the opportunity to amend the RICO allegations.

However, after her attorneys amended the filing, the judge ruled that the accusations did not meet the level of racketeering activity.

“Defendants’ effort to silence McGowan was a single, unified project with an end goal and an end date,” Judge Otis D. Wright said. “Thus, it is not the sort of continuous effort that is prohibited by RICO.”

He dismissed the RICO counts again and requested further briefing from Rose about whether the charges could be handled in federal court or whether they should be refiled in state court.

But the night before the filing deadline, the actress’ lead attorney Julie Porter told the court that she would be withdrawing from the case after being fired by Rose over Zoom.

“I have diligently endeavored to communicate with Plaintiff about the Court’s questions. Plaintiff did not authorize me to take any positions on the questions the Court posed,” Julie said in a statement. “On November 23, 2021, Plaintiff communicated to me during a Zoom meeting that she was terminating the attorney-client relationship, effectively immediately, and that Plaintiff no longer authorizes me or the other lawyers on our team to represent her. Plaintiff was very clear that she was terminating the representation.”

Judge Otis D. Wright then granted Rose the right to represented herself and extended the deadline to Dec. 3. She did not file the supplemental brief by the deadline, leading the case to be dismissed entirely. She will still be able to pursue her state-law claims in state court.

Earlier this year, Rose publicly slammed a celeb for being “as fake as they come.”

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