A media marketing manager has settled her lawsuit against a former partner she accused of infecting her with an incurable and life-altering herpes virus after promising he was disease-free and failing to reveal his involvement in the commercial sex industry.
The plaintiff is identified only as RR and the defendant as JTF in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that alleged sexual battery, negligent infliction of the herpes simplex type 2, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress and fraud. RR sought unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
RR is represented by former Stormy Daniels attorney Keith M. Davidson. On Tuesday, Davidson filed court papers with Judge Barbara A. Meiers notifying her that the case was resolved, but no terms were divulged. Davidson also requested that the scheduled Jan. 12 trial date be vacated.
In their court papers, JTF’s lawyers stated that RR’s claim that JTF concealed his sexually-transmitted disease status was “speculative assertion” that was “not supported by any factual details establishing actual knowledge or intent.”
According to her suit filed in October 2024, before meeting JTF, RR was a”happy, disease-free individual looking forward to the life ahead of her.”
By the time she filed her suit, however, the then-28-year-old had was overcome with anxiety, knows she cannot safely give natural birth to children and her life is “forever changed for the worse,” the suit alleged.
The pair met on a dating app in July 2022 and two months later, during Labor Day weekend of that year, JTF said he was free of any sexually transmitted diseases and had to be tested to get medical insurance, the suit stated.
JTF convinced RR that it was safe for them to be intimate the first time without him using a condom, according to the suit, which further stated the two were again intimate later in September 2022. At the end of that month, RR began having pain as well as cold and flu symptoms, according to her suit.
After a series of tests with mixed results, RR was told in October 2022 that she had HSV-2 in addition to HSV-1, according to the suit, which further stated that the plaintiff is burdened with taking medications for her condition indefinitely.
JTF was obligated to warn RR that he was engaged in the commercial sex industry, where he acted as a male performer who was paid for performing sexual acts in still photographs and on video for money, according to the suit.