Current Events > Joseph Gatt, falsely smeared a pedo by corrupt DA, suing LA for $40 million

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Update to the previous topic I had on this! Joseph Gatt (actor most known for his role in Game of Thrones) is not going to take his abuse by prosecutors silently, and is fighting back! And there's new details about this absolute shit show since the original case dismissal.

https://deadline.com/2024/04/joseph-gatt-sues-los-angeles-police-lapd-false-pedophile-claims-1235876289/

Almost two years after Joseph Gatt was arrested by the LAPD on now-dismissed charges of engaging in online sexually explicit communication with a minor across state lines, the Game of Thrones actor is taking on the police, the city of Los Angeles and the office of District Attorney George Gascn.

In a $40 million suit filed Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles (read it here), Gatt alleges he was falsely labeled as serial pedophile. To that end, he and his attorneys have put before the court a sordid saga of a 16-year-old obsessed fan, a botched police probe, and a now former Deputy L.A. D.A. with a supposed personal animosity against the actor.

The violation of constitutional rights complaint, which comes six weeks after an L.A. judge tossed out the felony case against Gatt without prejudice on the advice of the prosecution, reads like an louche thriller that most studios and streamers would reject as too over the top. Having lost his reputation, his freedom of speech (for a while), and his career, the actor who played Thenn Warg on Season 4 of GoT wants his own day in court, and he wants the steamrolling he experienced to all come out in public:

Defendants, using threats, intimidation and coercion, and with no cause, let alone probable cause, subjected Gatta successful actor with numerous film and television series credits, including Game of Thrones and Banshee, among many othersto an utterly baseless arrest, unlawful detention, unlawful search and seizure of property, and malicious prosecution in which Gatt was alleged to have electronically communicated with a minor in a sexually explicit manner. Defendants conduct was purportedly based solely on the uncorroborated word of a then-16-year-old, admittedly obsessed fan of Gattwho will be referred to throughout this Complaint as Jane Doe to preserve her privacy because she was a minor at the time and is not a party to this actionwhom Gatt did not know and has never actually met, and whom Defendants did not even bother to interview or even remotely assess for credibility until almost one year after Defendants arrested Gatt, charged him with baseless crimes, and publicly branded him as a serial pedophile.

The complaint from the UK-born journeyman actor lays out a frightening sequence of events at how a seemingly innocent Cameo birthday greeting by Gatt to a teen in Washington state in 2020 turned into a raid of the actors home in April 2022, his arrest and his apparent silencing as a condition of bail. The jury-seeking filing also points detailed and private investigator-backed fingers at the current L.A. DA Gascn, onetime deputy DA Angela Brunson (who left to work in the Riverside County DAs office last summer), and LAPD Det. Denos Amarantos over their alleged roles in this perplexing case.

The abuses in question were the product of a culture of tolerance within the LA DA and/or LAPD. This culture is rooted in the deliberate indifference of high-ranking LA County and/or City of Los Angeles officials, including without limitation Defendants Gascn, Brunson, and Amarantos and any other high-ranking official, individually or acting in concert with one another, to the widespread misconduct on the part of the LA DA and/or LAPD employees, investigators, and consultants in recklessly engaging in unlawful arrests, searches, seizures, and criminal prosecutions.

Neither the LAPD nor the Los Angeles County DAs office would comment on the filing by the Black Adam actor and its claims today because of the pending litigation. However, Gatts and hisKasowitz Benson Torres legal team have a high-octane theory as to why this case was so deep-rooted for Brunson and it has little to do with the alleged sex crime itself.

Gatt was well known in the high-performance sports car community generally, and to DDA Brunson specifically, for his liberal political beliefs, including his vocal support for the Black Lives Matter movement and for LA County District Attorney George Gascn. Like the vast majority of the high-performance sports car community, DDA Brunson espouses conservative political beliefs that are the polar opposite of Gatts beliefs, and she was also a vocal critic of Gascn despite working for him at the LA DA.

The 38-page complaint goes on to say:

Given her political beliefs and Gatts reputation as a liberal and a Gascn supporter in their shared community including his connection to her boyfriends employer, WRTeknica DDA Brunson clearly already held personal animosity toward Gatt at the time this matter was referred to LA County. Remarkably, however, DDA Brunson never revealed her personal connections and clear conflicts of interest to the Court, Gatt, or his criminal defense counsel.

Even though the February 9 dismissal of the initial case by L.A. Superior Court Judge M.L. Villar does allow the prosecution to refile charges if they wish, Gatts primary lawyer Dean Pamphilis was unequivocal to Deadline about what he thinks this public suit is all about.

The arrest and charges against Mr. Gatt for which he was branded by the Los Angeles DA and LAPD as a serial pedophile were based on fabricated evidence, the Kasowitz Benson Torres partner said. Twenty months later, when the fabricated evidence was finally disclosed to Mr. Gatt and Mr. Gatts forensic expert were prepared to expose the truth in open court, the Los Angeles DA voluntarily dismissed the criminal complaint. Mr. Gatt, however, had already lost his community, his acting career and his personal reputation. We look forward to recovering Mr. Gatts enormous losses in court.

Un-fucking real! It took nearly two years of career and reputation destruction before he and his legal team even got to see the evidence and that it was fabricated (the fan literally photoshopped scenes from his films and put herself in them), and they didn't even talk to the supposed victim for a damn year...and then kept dragging his name thru the mud for another year after that!

Fuck them, and fuck prosecutorial immunity. A whole lot of people should be in jail right now.

streamofthesky posted...

prosecutorial immunity

Remember, it was the courts that made up immunity to cover their own asses.

Tropicalwood posted...

Remember, it was the courts that made up immunity to cover their own asses.

Oh, I know.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/game-thrones-actor-joseph-gatt-162511515.html

Unbeknownst to Gatt, throughout this time Jane Doe was an admittedly obsessed fan who was already using a naked picture of Gatt a still image from his appearance on the television show Banshee that Jane Doe herself had apparently sought out and downloaded from the internet as her phones lock screen even before Gatt had ever had any interaction with her, the court docs state. Gatt also learned much later that Jane Doe had professed that she had sexual dreams involving Gatt, and had also apparently downloaded from the internet pictures of Gatt from his appearance on the television show Z Nation and photoshopped a fake tattoo of her own name onto Gatts right bicep.

The complaint lay out that Gatt hired a personal investigator who he wanted to present his own findings in court, only for the case to be voluntarily dismissed in February. It alleges that the L.A. District Attorneys office threatened Gatt and his personal investigator with jail time if they made their findings public.

According to the complaint, Gatt had to sell his Ford Shelby GT 500 car in order pay for his legal fees because he has not worked since his arrest. Gatt believes his career is now in shambles based on nothing more than facially untrustworthy pictures of a phone screen and the unverified word of an obsessed fan and claims he has suffered immeasurable mental anguish and emotional distress that made him physically ill as a result of this situation.

Some additional details on the "evidence" that led the LA prosecutors to make his life hell for 2 years and threats they made against him.

It's appalling how little media attention this is getting.

Gatt Damn

JFC that's horrible.

The albino from Banshee.