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Gwyneth Paltrow tells court a ski collision wasn’t her fault

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Gwyneth Paltrow insisted on the witness stand that a ski collision at an upscale Utah ski resort in 2016 wasn’t her fault, claiming the man suing her smashed into her from behind with his two skis.

Paltrow testified that the crash shocked her — and at first, she worried that she was being violated.“There was a body pressing against me and a very strange grunting noise,” she said.

Throughout Paltrow’s heavily anticipated testimony, the founder-CEO of Goop has calmly and repeatedly said that Sanderson, who sat several feet away in court, crashed into her. To draw attention to her wealth and privilege, Sanderson’s lawyers have probed Paltrow about the price of ski instructors at Deer Valley Resort — and her decision to leave the mountain to get a massage the day of the crash that broke four of Sanderson’s ribs and left him concussed.

After the collision, Sanderson sent his daughters an email with the subject line: “I’m famous ... At what cost?” One of the daughters wrote back: “I also can’t believe this is all on GoPro.” “There was this big, blood curdling scream. Someone would’ve looked,” Herath said, recalling the conversation with her father about how Paltrow shrieked during their collision.

After a judge threw out Sanderson’s earlier $US3.1 million lawsuit, Sanderson then claimed damages of “more than $US300,000.” Paltrow has countersued for a symbolic $US1 and attorney fees. In 2017, Taylor Swift similarly countersued a radio host for the same, symbolic amount of $US1.The amount of money at stake for both sides pales in comparison to the typical legal costs of a multiyear lawsuit, private security detail and expert witness-heavy trial.

 

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