In 2019, actors Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal filed a lawsuit alleging that The Disaster Artist star had intimidated students at Studio 4, the since-closed acting and film school he founded, into gratuitous and exploitative sexual situations.
In the original lawsuit, it was claimed that Franco pushed his students into performing in explicit sex scenes on camera in an “orgy-type setting”.
Earlier this month, a status report jointly filed by both sides stated that a settlement had now been reached.
Tither-Kaplan and Gaal, both of whom had studied at Studio 4, have agreed to drop their individual claims under the agreement.