Does she have a legal leg to stand on if say she gives the money back. Surely the PR for USA gymnastics to sue her would at the very least be optically terrible.
I haven't read anything about it but my guess is that most of these types of agreements contain confidentiality language. If she came out and spoke about it then she violated the agreement.
Honestly I did not, but from the article it seems like she'd only be on the hook for 200k max according to the agreement which may not even be valid under California law, so not sure why she would give back the money.
I think her lawyer is saying the confidentiality agreement was illegal in California because she was under age at the time.
also California law prohibits confidential settlements in a civil matter that could be prosecuted as a felony sex offense.
Also they will look worse than they already do (if that's possible) if they try to get the money back
Aren’t they saying that her lawyer pushed for the confidentiality? That is either incompetence on his part or 4d chess. Not sure which.
1.25 million settlement? so she received 1.25 mil? which included her saying she wouldn't talk about whatever she got the settlement for? and now she can talk about it, but would have to pony up 100k to do so? seems worth it (note; i haven't read anything about this)
When I was a poor college student a lot of days my lunch was a 100 grand and a bag of Cheetos for like 1.35
Yea, I get that women should speak out about this sort of situation but she didn't have to accept the $1.25 million. She could have turned it down, not signed a NDA, and yelled about this from the mountain tops. She got paid very well to not say a thing while other women likely didn't get anything aside from being molested. That was a decision she made. Regardless, if she got paid $1.25 million and only has to cough up $100k to speak openly about it, then she should do it. That's still $1.15 million that she gets to pocket.
Was watching this old clip, and at about the 2:25 mark you see Nassar standing there after her vault saying good job as she walks by. Super creepy in hindsight.
She's back!!!!!! She has inactivated her social media like 10x over the years....this was the longest stint...was getting worried