A stuntman who worked on the USA Network series “Shooter” settled a lawsuit he filed against Tom Sizemore and Paramount Pictures Corp., in which he claimed he was struck and seriously injured by an SUV driven by the allegedly drunken actor in 2016.
Lawyers for Steve DeCastro and his wife, Carly DeCastro, filed court papers March 29 in Los Angeles Superior Court stating that the case was resolved. No terms were divulged. In December, the plaintiffs filed court papers to start the process of obtaining a default judgment against the 56-year-old Sizemore.
The couple alleged they were entitled to millions of dollars in damages. The suit alleged negligence, unusual risk, battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss of consortium.
DeCastro’s suit stated he was struck by the SUV on July 6, 2016, while filming a scene at the Agua Dulce Airport near Santa Clarita. He was airlifted to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, the suit stated.
“Sizemore became intoxicated knowing he would operate a motor vehicle and then operated said motor vehicle in a reckless, dangerous manner…,” the suit alleged.
DeCastro’s injuries left him “disabled” and “disordered” both internally and externally, the suit states.
Sizemore has struggled with substance abuse over the years, at one point starring in a VH1 unscripted series dealing with his attempts to regain his career after struggles with addiction.
He also has a long history of brushes with the law. Most famously, he was sentenced to six months in jail in 2003 for beating up his then-girlfriend, “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss.
In 2005, his probation was revoked when he was caught using a prosthetic device to try to fool a drug test. Sizemore eventually got his probation reinstated, but he tested positive for drug use in 2006 and was given another three years probation and ordered to take weekly drug tests.
The following year he was arrested on suspicion of drug possession in Bakersfield and sentenced to prison for violating his probation.