President-elect Donald Trump’s protection secretary choose, Pete Hegseth, paid a girl who accused him of sexual assault in a settlement settlement that included a confidentiality clause, in accordance with Hegseth’s lawyer.
Attorney Timothy Parlatore stated Hegseth denies assaulting the girl and has characterised the October 2017 incident in Monterey, California as a “consensual sexual encounter.”
Monterey metropolis officers final week confirmed that native police had investigated “an alleged sexual assault” involving Hegseth. The metropolis declined to launch details about the sufferer and stated it will not launch the complete police report or remark additional on the investigation, citing state public information regulation.
Hegseth has not been charged in any legal case or named as a defendant in any civil lawsuit in reference to the incident.
In 2020, Hegseth realized the girl was contemplating submitting a lawsuit, Parlatore stated in assertion supplied to CNN.
Parlatore stated the cost to the married girl was of “a significantly reduced amount” and that Hegseth, a veteran turned Fox News host, settled as a result of it was in the course of the “Me Too” motion and he didn’t wish to lose his job on the community if the accusation turned public. The lawyer’s assertion didn’t say how a lot Hegseth’s accuser was paid within the settlement.
Parlatore stated Hegseth felt that he was the sufferer of blackmail.
CNN spoke briefly with the alleged sufferer on Thursday. She turned visibly distraught on the point out of Hegseth’s title however declined to be interviewed with out first contacting her lawyer. She stated she didn’t know what she was licensed to say.
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