The proprietor of the Edmonton Oilers is going through accusations he paid a teenage ballet dancer $75,000 in change for sexual favors, in response to a civil swimsuit reported on by CBC Information.
A 3rd-party counterclaim in US District Court docket in Nevada alleges Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz was in a sexual relationship with ballerina Sage Humphries when she was an underage teen.
The counterclaim is in response to a 2021 lawsuit that was filed in opposition to dance trainer Mitchell Taylor Button and his spouse, Dusty Button, by Humphries and different ballet dancers who accused the couple of sexual abuse, the Canadian outlet reported.
Earlier this month, the couple filed the third-party counterclaim that alleges the Buttons had been in a consensual “throuple sexual relationship” with Humphries when she was 18, but in addition claims Katz and two different males had sexual relationships with the Humphries when she was underage, CBC Information reported. The declare seeks to carry the boys chargeable for any damages.
“Humphries was actually a toddler prostitute to a billionaire,” the declare alleges, “and her mom assisted her in laundering the cash she was paid and in trafficking her to Katz.”
One exhibit from the courtroom submitting obtained by CBC Information reveals texts allegedly exchanged between Katz, when he was 53, and Humphries when she was 17. It wasn’t clear how the messages had been obtained for the civil swimsuit.
“If my guys ship u funds will u spend it on/hold it for your self?” Katz allegedly wrote. “And simply between us? Regardless that u r smart past your years given our respective ages it will be taken the mistaken means.”
“Sure .. Simply between us,” Humphries allegedly replies.
“OK may have one among my guys e mail u. He'll ship you 50K,” Katz then allegedly replied.
Katz’s lawyer, Robert Klieger, denied the allegations in opposition to his consumer, calling them “baseless and scurrilous.”
He informed CBC Information Katz by no means had a sexual relationship with Humphries, although the 2 met twice in 2016 to debate a challenge the teenager was pitching to Katz’s movie firm, Silver Photos.
Klieger stated he couldn't confirm the authenticity of the texts within the courtroom submitting, CBC Information reported, however Katz did prepare for $75,000 to be despatched to Humphries as a part of a enterprise deal.
“They finally determined to cross on the challenge. However through the time period that the challenge was into account, they requested for some assist to maintain with the funding of the challenge to maintain it going. And that’s the $75,000 that's at concern,” stated Klieger.
The lawyer for Humphries and the opposite dancers suing Taylor Button and his spouse dismissed the counterclaim as a “meaningless sideshow” in a press release to CBC Information.
“As is typical of abusers going through critical litigation, the Buttons have filed counterclaims that distract from and warp the reality and weaponize the intense allegations of abuse which were introduced in opposition to them,” wrote lawyer Sigrid McCawley.
“Their counterclaims falsely implicate others and are an unfounded try to painting the ladies they abused as liars.”
An lawyer representing Taylor Button and his spouse, who was as soon as a principal member of The Boston Ballet, declined remark to CBC Information.
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