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British actor Joseph Gatt, 52, known for his roles in Game of Thrones and Thor, has filed a $40 million lawsuit against Los Angeles County, its district attorney, an LAPD detective and others for false accusations that he was a pedophile.

In 2022, Gatt was arrested and charged with alleged sexual communication with a minor. However, the charges were later dropped, and Gatt vehemently denied the accusations and described them as “utterly baseless.”

The lawsuit alleges that Gatt’s arrest was the result of the actions of an “obsessed” 16-year-old fan. Gatt asserts that he had no knowledge of the teenager and had never met her. In October 2020, a friend of the fan purchased a Cameo video message from Gatt, in which he wished her a happy birthday. Following this, the fan repeatedly messaged Gatt over social media, and he responded in a manner that was “wholly appropriate and consistent with typical celebrity-fan exchanges.

“Game of Thrones” actor Joseph Gatt has sued Los Angeles County, its district attorney and more for falsely claiming he was a pedophile after being arrested and charged with alleged sexual communication with a minor in 2022. The charge was later dropped, and he’s now calling the arrest “utterly baseless” in his lawsuit for $40 million.

Gatt filed the lawsuit Thursday and is suing L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón, Los Angeles County, L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Angela Brunson, LAPD Detective Denos Amarantos and the City of Los Angeles.

The lawsuit is claiming a “shocking and intentional destruction of Joseph Gatt’s acting career and personal reputation by Los Angeles County law enforcement personnel that resulted from a thoroughly botched criminal investigation, entirely lacking any probable cause, led by an obviously conflicted Deputy District Attorney who sought to destroy Gatt based on nothing more than bias and personal animosity.

Almost two years after Joseph Gatt was arrested by the LAPD on now-dismissed charges of engaging in “online sexually explicit communication with a minor across state lines,” the Game of Thrones actor is taking on the police, the city of Los Angeles and the office of District Attorney George Gascón.

In a $40 million suit filed Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles (read it here), Gatt alleges he was falsely labeled as serial pedophile. To that end, he and his attorneys have put before the court a sordid saga of a 16-year-old “obsessed fan,” a botched police probe, and a now former Deputy L.A. D.A. with a supposed “personal animosity” against the actor.

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In November 2019, Dr. Bruce Hensel, 74, a former TV doctor of NBC, was arrested and charged with contacting an acquaintance’s 9-year-old daughter and asking her to send him sexually suggestive photos.

Investigators with the Los Angeles Regional Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force served a search warrant in Hensel’s house where they found messages between the girl and “a person believed to be Bruce Hensel” between March and August of 2019.

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At yesterday’s hearing, Hensel pleaded no contest to the felony charge of contacting a minor for a sexual purpose. By pleading no contest, Hensel accepted the charges but did not admit guilt. He was sentenced to two years probation and must register as a sex offender, according to Deputy District Attorney Angela Brunson.

During the hearing, Hensel said he is, “terribly sorry for what happened, I’ve done everything I...

Dr. Bruce Hensel, an Emmy-winning former television medical correspondent for Knbc, was charged Wednesday on suspicion of contacting a minor with intent to commit sexual acts, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.

Hensel faces one felony count of contact with a minor for sexual purposes, Deputy District Attorney Angela Brunson of the Cyber Crime Division said. If convicted as charged, the former NBC La fixture faces a possible maximum sentence of 18 months in state prison.

Hensel, 71, was detained about 10:15 a.m. by Los Angeles Police Department Juvenile Division investigators. Hensel was booked around noon and held on $5,000 bail, according to jail records.

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Investigators with the Los Angeles Regional Internet Crime Against Children Task Force served a search warrant at Hensel’s Pacific Palisades home on Oct. 16. The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department,...