Gwyneth Paltrow will not recoup lawyer charges in ski crash lawsuit

Gwyneth Paltrow is not going to recoup the attorneys’ charges she paid to efficiently defend herself towards a lawsuit from a 76-year-old retired optometrist who claimed she was at fault for crashing into him at a fancy Utah ski resort in 2016.

In a ruling printed on Saturday, a Utah choose stated attorneys for Paltrow and Terry Sanderson had agreed to drop the matter of Paltrow’s attorneys’ charges. District Court Judge Kent Holmberg’s ultimate judgment didn’t element why the matter of attorneys’ charges that Paltrow sought in her 2019 countersuit was dropped.

The judgment affirmed the jury’s unanimous verdict discovering Terry Sanderson — the person who collided with Paltrow — to be “100% at fault,” awarding Paltrow the $1 she sought in a countersuit. It additionally stated Sanderson wouldn’t enchantment the decision, successfully ending a protracted authorized battle seven years after the 2 crashed on a newbie run close to the bottom of Deer Valley Resort in Utah.

Representatives for Paltrow weren’t instantly out there to reply questions in regards to the ultimate judgment or the cash at stake. Neither facet has publicly disclosed how a lot it value to maintain a yearslong authorized battle with a group of attorneys, skilled witnesses from across the United States and, for Paltrow’s facet, high-resolution animated recreations of her recollections of the crash.

The “Shakespeare in Love” and “Ironman” star’s eight-day court docket battle final month emerged as probably the most intently watched American movie star trial since actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard confronted off final 12 months. Sanderson’s lawsuit accused Paltrow of negligence and crashing into him from behind, after which leaving the scene of the accident with out making certain he was in good bodily situation. He sought greater than $300,000 in damages — a threshold in Utah civil court docket that permits events to introduce probably the most proof and depose the longest checklist of witnesses.

Paltrow subsequently countersued for the symbolic $1 and attorneys’ charges — claiming Sanderson had crashed into her from behind and was suing to use her fame and movie star.

“I felt that acquiescing to a false declare compromised my integrity,” the founder and CEO of the sweetness and wellness model Goop stated.

Under the glare of dwell Court TV cameras and intensive scrutiny from followers and detractors, Paltrow sat intently within the Park City courtroom all through the proceedings final month, at and testified that in the first place, when the crash occurred, she thought she was being “violated.”

After the decision, Sanderson’s attorneys stated they had been weighing whether or not to enchantment the case or to file for a brand new trial. Paltrow and her lawyer stated in separate statements that the countersuit extra to do along with her rules than the greenback quantity at stake. They weren’t instantly out there to touch upon the ultimate judgment.