Hollywood director and writer James Toback has been ordered to pay $1.68bn in damages to 40 women who accused him of sexual abuse and other crimes over four decades.
Toback, who was among the first to be accused of sexual assault during the #MeToo scandal in 2017, was deemed by a New York jury on Wednesday (9 April) to have abused his power in the film industry to sexually assault women between 1979 and 2014.
