Schwarzenegger settles 'grope' case
Hollywood star-turned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has settled a libel lawsuit with a British journalist.
She claimed she was groped by him during an interview and later defamed by his aides during his 2003 campaign.
"The parties are content to put this matter behind them and are pleased that this legal dispute has now been settled," said a two-sentence statement issued jointly in London by lawyers for Schwarzenegger and the journalist, Anna Richardson.
No details were released. The statement said Richardson and the three people she sued - the governor and two top aides, Sean Walsh and publicist Sheryl Main - reached a settlement "to all parties' satisfaction".
The settlement was confirmed by Walsh in a telephone interview.
The agreement spares the governor from what could have been a potentially embarrassing trial as he campaigns for a second term this year.
Richardson, a former late-night TV personality, sued Schwarzenegger and his two aides in London in May 2004. She claimed Schwarzenegger fondled her breast during a December 2000 interview in London and that his staff later damaged her reputation by contending she encouraged his behaviour.
Schwarzenegger's lawyers argued that Richardson did not give a truthful account of events during the interview.
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