‘Game Of Thrones’ Joseph Gatt Hits LA, DA, & Police With $40M Suit Over False Pedophile Claims
04.04.2024 - 23:37
/ deadline.com
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 Angles and the office of District Attorney George Gascón.
In a $40 million suit filed Thursday in federal court in LA (read it here), Gatt alleges he was falsely labelled as serial pedophile. To that end, Gatt 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 LA D.A. with a supposed “personal animosity” against the actor.
Today’s violation of Constitutional rights complaint, which comes six-weeks after a LA 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 Gatt—a successful actor with numerous film and television series credits, including Game of Thrones and Banshee, among many others—to 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