Gwyneth Paltrow cleared in ski crash trial

A assemblage has recovered US histrion Gwyneth Paltrow was not astatine responsibility for a 2016 skis clang astatine a edifice successful Utah.

Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, had said Paltrow crashed into him, leaving him with life-changing injuries.

He sought $300,000 (£245,000) successful damages.

Paltrow, 50, blamed him for the accident, countersuing for $1 positive ineligible fees.

Listening to the verdict successful court, Paltrow was expressionless, staring consecutive up and appearing to motion slightly. She past near the courtroom, declining requests for comments.

On her mode out, she concisely stopped to talk to Mr Sanderson. He aboriginal said she told him: "I privation you well."

Speaking to media outside, her lawyer Steve Owens said Paltrow "has a past of advocating for what she believes in".

"This concern was nary antithetic and she volition proceed to basal up for what is right," helium said.

Afterwards Mr Sanderson called the verdict "very disappointing" and maintained helium had been the 1 deed connected the slope.

The two-week proceedings heard from dozens of witnesses with contradictory stories astir who crashed successful to whom.

After 3 hours of deliberation, a assemblage unanimously recovered Mr Sanderson wholly astatine responsibility for the incident, and awarded Paltrow $1.

In Mr Sanderson's telling, the Oscar-winner slammed successful to him connected a beginner slope astatine Deer Valley Resort successful Park City. Paltrow past skied distant portion helium remained unconscious successful the snowfall with breached ribs, Mr Sanderson said.

The mishap near him with life-altering encephalon trauma, helium testified.

On the stand, Paltrow offered an wholly antithetic relationship of the accident, saying Mr Sanderson had skied straight into her backmost arsenic she went down the slope with her 2 children.

"I thought, 'Is this a applicable joke? Is idiosyncratic doing thing perverted? This is really, truly strange,'" she said successful her testimony.

Paltrow's lawyers worked to undermine Mr Sanderson's assertion that his wellness was ruined by the crash, pointing retired a agelong database of trips helium took aft the mishap to South America, Europe and Morocco.

And they accused Mr Sanderson of trying to exploit their client's fame, asking astir an email helium sent to his daughters soon aft the collision, successful which helium wrote: "I'm famous".

The intimately watched lawsuit hinged connected skiing etiquette, with some parties claiming that they were the downhill skier and truthful had close of way.

But the grounds besides contained respective inadvertently comic moments, with lawyers asking Paltrow astir her height, her fashion, and however adjacent she was with vocalist Taylor Swift.

"I would not accidental we're bully friends. We are friendly," Paltrow replied.

Kristan VanOrman, 1 of Mr Sanderson's lawyers, had told Paltrow during cross-examination that she was jealous of her height. Speaking to reporters aft the verdict, she said she was "not starstruck" by Paltrow.

"I person a newfound appreciation for Ms Paltrow if she has to woody with each this [media attention] connected a regular basis," Ms VanOrman said.