Anti-Flag frontman Justin Sane, aka Justin Geever, has been courtroom ordered to pay $1.9 million to the lady who accused him of rape in a 2023 lawsuit.
Per a report by Billboard, a federal courtroom order on Tuesday (July twenty second) holds Sane liable by default for failing to answer the assault and sexual battery lawsuit introduced in opposition to him by Kristina Sarhadi.
The order requires Sane to pay Sarhadi $1.9 million in damages, together with $750,000 for ache and struggling and $420,800 for the prices of remedy to handle post-traumatic stress dysfunction, melancholy, and nervousness stemming from the 2010 rape. The determine additionally contains $750,000 in punitive damages.
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“It’s well-documented by way of the supporting affidavits that plaintiff has suffered excessive emotional misery and an entire upending of her life, as evidenced by her signs which have endured fifteen years for the reason that date of the assault,” wrote Choose Sannes, per Billboard‘s report.
As beforehand reported, Sarhadi stated that Sane was actively avoiding makes an attempt to be served and that he deliberate to “flee to Europe,” having offered his home in Pittsburgh, and, in response to courtroom paperwork, tried to “disguise his property by transferring funds abroad to an Irish checking account.” Moreover, Sane’s lawyer Michael Johnson allegedly went “silent” throughout settlement negotiations and did not serve Sane with the lawsuit.
Sarhadi alleges Sane strangled and raped her at a motel in 2010, after they met at an Anti-Flag present at The Bell Home in Brooklyn. Following her accusations of sexual misconduct, 12 extra ladies got here ahead in a Rolling Stone report.
Within the wake of the accusations, Anti-Flag broke up in July of 2023, with the opposite band members finally issuing a press release that informed Sane “fuck you for hurting so many individuals.” Sarhadi, nonetheless, claimed his former bandmates have been “conscious of Geever’s observe of sexually assaulting younger ladies and women” and subsequently included the band’s firm, Hardwork Distribution, within the lawsuit. Nevertheless, a decide dismissed Sarhadi’s claims in opposition to Anti-Flag’s company entity again in December.