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Timothy Hutton Sues After Being Dropped From ‘Leverage’ Reboot

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Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterTimothy Hutton has sued the producers of the TV series “Leverage: Redemption,” alleging that they breached his contract when they dropped him from the show following a report of a sexual assault allegation.BuzzFeed reported in March 2020 that a woman had gone to the Vancouver Police Department, alleging that Hutton had raped her in 1983, when she was 14.

Hutton denied the allegations and alleged that the accuser had repeatedly sought to extort him out of millions of dollars. Prosecutors in British Columbia ultimately decided not to press charges.At the time, Hutton was preparing to reprise his role in “Leverage,” a TNT series that ran from 2008 to 2012.

But after the BuzzFeed report, the production company, Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment, dropped him from the reboot of the show.

The suit alleges that Electric did nothing to investigate the allegation and ignored evidence that Hutton’s representatives presented that challenged the claim.

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