$10M Settlement of Class Action Against Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Bruce Monk
TORONTO, Jan. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Waddell Phillips announces that the parties to a class action against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Bruce Monk have reached a $10 million settlement, subject to receiving the courts approval.
- TORONTO, Jan. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Waddell Phillips announces that the parties to a class action against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Bruce Monk have reached a $10 million settlement, subject to receiving the courts approval.
- The class action is brought on behalf of students of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School (the School) from 1984 to 2015 and whom, while enrolled at the School, were photographed by Bruce Monk in a private setting.
- The court hearing for the approval of the settlement will take place on Friday, February 11, 2022 by videoconference.
- The class action alleges that while Bruce Monk was a teacher and photographer at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, he took nude, semi-nude and intimate photographs of students, some of which he published, sold, and disseminated on-line.