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Former Major League Baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer and his accuser Lindsey Hill have settled their respective lawsuits against one another.
Bauer, the 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner, was sued by Hill after she accused him of felony sexual assault.
Bauer was never charged with any crimes after the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office admitted, “After a thorough review of all the available evidence, including the civil restraining order proceedings, witness statements and the physical evidence, the People are unable to prove the relevant charges beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Trevor Bauer then filed a defamation lawsuit against Hill claiming she made up the allegations to ruin his career and extort money from him.
On the flip side, Hill claimed in a counter-suit that Bauer used his fame and wealth to wage an “organized smear campaign to falsely and maliciously denigrate Hill and other victims.”
Now, over a year later, the two sides have decided to settle their lawsuits, TMZ reports.
“In April 2022, Trevor Bauer sued Lindsey Hill for defamation. In what turned out to be an outstanding resolution for Lindsey, neither Lindsey nor anyone on her behalf paid anything to Bauer. Not a single dollar,” Lindsey Hill’s attorney Bryan Freedman told TMZ.
“Even better, Lindsey received $300,000 from her insurance company. Based on that payment, Lindsey agreed to settle the lawsuit. Now that the lawsuit is over, Lindsey looks forward to helping others.”
The Washington Post reports that, according to the settlement agreement, each side will pay their own attorneys’ fees and that both will continue to deny the other’s claims.
“I’m finally free from his grip, and to be able to move forward with my life is better than anything money could ever give me, truly,” Hill told the Post.
“Quite frankly, regardless of the outcome in court, I’ve paid significantly more in legal fees than Lindsey Hill could ever pay me in her entire life, and I knew that would be the case going in,” Bauer said. “But the lawsuit was never about the money for me.”
Bauer’s attorneys, Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley, added that now “Mr. Bauer can focus completely on baseball.”
Unfortunately, that is not really the case because Bauer was also accused of sexual assault by a woman in Arizona and that case is currently expected to go to trial sometime in mid-2024.
Bauer, 32, after receiving no acceptable offers from a Major League Baseball team this past offseason, ended up pitching for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan.
In 2021, he was the highest paid player in Major League Baseball history.
UPDATE: Trevor Bauer released a new video about the case.
“She concealed evidence from me, I sued her to get access to it, now I’m using it to clear my name,” he wrote.
“I have never been arrested, unlike her. I have never been charged with a crime, unlike her. I’ve never pled guilty to a crime, unlike her.
I have won in court, unlike her. And I never paid her a cent.”