In December 2023, we learned that Vin Diesel’s former assistant,\u00a0Asta Jonasson, was suing the actor after an alleged sexual battery which took place in 2010.\u00a0She worked for him during production on\u00a0Fast Five, and\u00a0claimed that he brought her\u00a0to his hotel suite and forced her onto his bed.<\/p>\n
The suit said that she asked Diesel to stop, but when she moved to a nearby door, the actor groped her breasts and kissed her chest. It went on to explain that he supposedly tried to pull down Jonasson\u2019s underwear, prompting her to scream and run for the bathroom.<\/p>\n
She also states\u00a0that Diesel, who played\u00a0Groot in the\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy\u00a0and\u00a0Avengers\u00a0franchises, then forced her against the wall, made her touch his erect penis, and proceeded to start masturbating. Shortly after the alleged incident,\u00a0Jonasson was fired by Diesel’s sister.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Dominic Toretto\u00a0actor’s lawyer quickly shared a statement through\u00a0his attorney,\u00a0Bryan Freedman, categorically denying the allegations (and describing them as “outlandish”).<\/p>\n
Things have moved slowly since then, but a judge on Wednesday dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds\u00a0that California law does not apply in Georgia. Previously,\u00a0Judge\u00a0Daniel M. Crowley\u00a0dismissed four of Jonasson’s 10 claims, citing the statute of limitations. In this new ruling, the other six were dismissed\u00a0due to lack of jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
“It is undisputed that the alleged sexual assault took place in Atlanta, Ga.,”\u00a0the judge wrote, adding that the claim “fails as a matter of law because California statutes are presumed not to have extraterritorial effect unless the Legislature expressly states otherwise in adopting the statute.”<\/p>\n
Usually,\u00a0Jonasson’s entire suit would have been considered\u00a0beyond the statute of limitations. However, in 2022, Los Angeles Governor\u00a0Gavin Newsom signed the Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up Accountability Act, which revived certain sexual assault cases dating back to 2009. However,\u00a0Judge Crowley had decided that the law does not apply outside\u00a0the state of California.<\/p>\n
Jonasson’s\u00a0lawyers have said, “The Court did not decide anything about the truth of Ms. Jonasson\u2019s allegations. The ruling was based on a legal technicality, with which we respectfully disagree. Ms. Jonasson intends to appeal.”<\/p>\n
Diesel’s lawyer\u00a0has since stated, “We are grateful that the court put an end to this meritless lawsuit. We are pleased that this matter has been resolved entirely.”<\/p>\n
This is likely the end of the matter, and Diesel himself has yet to comment on the allegations. It’s unclear whether the actor will reprise his role as Groot in one of the upcoming Avengers movies, Doomsday and Secret Wars, but Fast & Furious 11 is still in the works.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In December 2023, we learned that Vin Diesel’s former assistant,\u00a0Asta Jonasson, was suing the actor after an alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,71038],"class_list":{"0":"post-296423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-vin-diesel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}