A couple who say they were among three people injured in a 2020 automobile accident in Brentwood that was allegedly caused by a son of actor and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have dropped their part of the case.
On Friday, lawyers for Maryam Pirian and Manouchehr Pirian filed court papers with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anne Hwang asking that their clients be dismissed as plaintiffs in the consolidated lawsuit against Christopher Schwarzenegger, leaving Gad Kakanyisa as the remaining plaintiff.
The Pirian attorneys’ court papers do not state why the couple wants to be dropped from the case.
The accident occurred Oct. 30, 2020. The Pirians, both now 78, say they were driving south on Carmelina Avenue at Sunset Boulevard when Christopher Schwarzenegger’s vehicle collided with theirs. Kakanyisa, 52, was driving the second car allegedly struck by the actor’s son. All three plaintiffs named both Schwarzeneggers and the actor’s company, Oak Productions Inc., as defendants.
The lawsuit is separate from one brought by 34-year-old Saam Takaloo against another Schwarzenegger son, actor and fitness model Joseph Baena. Takaloo alleges he was injured when his vehicle was struck by one driven by Baena on the southbound San Diego (405) Freeway in Culver City on April 5, 2021. His lawsuit names the same defendants.
Baena is Schwarzenegger’s son with his former housekeeper, Mildred Baena, the product of an affair that prompted the actor’s former wife, Maria Shriver, to file for divorce in 2011 when it became public. Baena, 25, was a contestant in 2022 during the 31st season of “Dancing With the Stars.”