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| Gwyneth Paltrow cleared in ski crash trial | Gwyneth Paltrow cleared in ski crash trial |
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| Watch the moment Paltrow ski crash verdict is announced | |
| Watch the moment Paltrow ski crash verdict is announced | |
| A jury has found US actress Gwyneth Paltrow was not at fault for a 2016 ski crash at a resort in Utah. | A jury has found US actress Gwyneth Paltrow was not at fault for a 2016 ski crash at a resort in Utah. |
| Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, had said Paltrow crashed into him, leaving him with life-changing injuries. | Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, had said Paltrow crashed into him, leaving him with life-changing injuries. |
| He sought $300,000 (£245,000) in damages. | He sought $300,000 (£245,000) in damages. |
| Paltrow, 50, blamed him for the accident, countersuing for $1 plus legal fees. | Paltrow, 50, blamed him for the accident, countersuing for $1 plus legal fees. |
| Listening to the verdict in court, Paltrow was expressionless, staring straight ahead and appearing to nod slightly. She then left the courtroom, declining requests for comments. | |
| Speaking to media outside, her lawyer Steve Owens said Paltrow "has a history of advocating for what she believes in". | |
| "This situation was no different and she will continue to stand up for what is right," he said. | |
| The two-week trial heard from dozens of witnesses with contradictory stories of who crashed in to whom - an accident only one witness claimed to have seen. | |
| After three hours of deliberation, a jury found that Mr Sanderson entirely at fault for the incident in a unanimous decision, and awarded Paltrow $1. | |
| In Mr Sanderson's telling, the Oscar-winner had slammed in to him on a beginner slope at Deer Valley Resort in Park City. Paltrow then skied away while he remained unconscious in the snow with broken ribs, Mr Sanderson said. | |
| The accident left him with life-altering brain trauma, he testified. | |
| On the stand, Paltrow offered an entirely different account of the accident, saying Mr Sanderson had skied directly into her back as she went down the slope with her two children. | |
| "I thought, 'Is this a practical joke? Is someone doing something perverted? This is really, really strange,'" she said in her testimony. | |
| Paltrow's lawyers worked to undermine Mr Sanderson's claim that his health was ruined by the crash, asking the former eye doctor to confirm a long list of trips he took after the accident to South America, Europe and Morocco. | |
| And they accused Mr Sanderson of trying to exploit their client's fame, asking about an email he sent to his daughters shortly after the collision, in which he wrote: "I'm famous". | |
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