Charlie Sheen’s alleged payment to ex-girlfriend to nullify a lawsuit for HIV exposure
According to TMZ, the Two and a Half Men actor resolved his ex-partner’s complaint by paying her $120,000.
The American actor Charlie Sheen has paid, according to the news outlet TMZ, $120,000 to an ex-girlfriend so that she withdraw a lawsuit that she had filed against the Two and a Half Men actor for having exposed her to HIV without her consent.
Why Charlie Sheen paid up over HIV suit
Some documents obtained by the aforementioned outlet showed the agreement between the two in order to resolve a complaint dated in 2017. The files would reflect the payment of 120,000 dollars in twelve monthly payments of 10,000 dollars, already having the approval of the Los Angeles County Supreme Court. As yet, sources close to the actor have neither confirmed nor denied the news.
The woman met Sheen in 2015, the year in which the unprotected sexual relations that both had took place. According to TMZ, she has claimed that he dismissively told her to take pills to prevent transmission, but told her to not believe “the convenient rumors of the medical community,” saying, “You don’t need to be on all that fucking shit.”
Jane Doe, the name under which she filed the complaint, decided to bring the situation to the attention of the courts. Of course, always without explicitly mentioning the actor, although including the date on which Sheen made his diagnosis public, an irrefutable fact that facilitated his identification.
It was on November 17, 2015, on NBC's Today show, where Charlie Sheen announced that he had HIV. However, the diagnosis dates back to 2011, so he kept his medical status secret.
“The reason for this announcement is to put an end to this onslaught of attacks, half-truths and very harmful attacks that could affect other people and that are very far from reality,” he declared at the time .
Sheen’s “fear of lawsuits”
Six months before making the infection official, Charlie Sheen's team consulted one of Hollywood's most popular crisis managers, Howard Bragman, to assess how to deal with the situation.
Bragman, in statements collected by People magazine, acknowledged that the actor “didn’t feel comfortable talking about the disease” and that “he was worried about the fear of lawsuits from the people with whom you have had sexual relations.”