LOS ANGELES – A jury has unanimously awarded a staggering total of $900 million to a woman who worked for a Beverly Hills businessman who she accused of sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The Los Angeles Superior Court panel reached its decisions Monday in the case brought by plaintiff Jane Doe against Alki David. Doe was employed by David from February 2016 to April 2019 with David’s companies, including Filmon TV in Beverly Hills, Hologram USA Inc. and SwissX Labs.
The verdicts consisted of $100 million in compensatory damages and $800 million in punitive damages and could be one of the largest such awards in history, according to Doe’s lawyers.
Prior juries awarded over $80 million dollars against David for similar allegations. David’s liability for rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment and retaliation in the case filed in September 2020 were previously established and the jury was impaneled to determine damages, according to Doe’s lawyers.
The trial marked the fifth jury award against David and his companies in the last five years alleging sexual assault in the workplace. Doe’s attorneys stated that the evidence in her case showed that she was sexually assaulted while David was in the middle of another sexual assault trial in April 2019.
An attempt to reach David’s attorney, who is located in Greece, was not immediately successful Tuesday.
David is an heir to the Coca-Cola bottling company fortune.
