Shock outcome of Jim Carrey’s legal case
Jim Carrey will not face trial in the death of his ex-girlfriend after his lawyer showed the lengths she went to try and blackmail him.
Irish-born Cathriona White died by suicide and her family claimed the actor supplied her with drugs following her fatal overdose in 2015 and infected her with three sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs).
But the 56-year-old Golden Globe winning actor’s legal team proved that White blackmailed Carrey with fake STD results. She had forged medical records which showed that she had no STDs before she met Carrey.
A court document shows that White used a friend’s test results, referred to as Jane Doe, to fake her own results.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the wrongful death lawsuits, filed by White’s estranged husband Mark Burton, and mother Brigid Sweetman, were dismissed January 25.
Carrey filed a countersuit last September claiming that the legal action was an attempt to exploit a famous actor.
He said that White had tried to blackmail him by threatening to leak to the press false allegations that he had given her STDs.
She also alleged that he introduced her “to cocaine and prostitutes”.
White, 30, had an on-off relationship with Carrey from 2012 to her death in 2015. She has suffered depression and spoke of suicide before taking her life in 2015.
A spokesman for Carrey told The Hollywood Reporter: “Jim is looking forward to moving on with his life now.”