A Los Angeles board ordered Bikram yoga architect Bikram Choudhury to pay $6.5 actor in castigating amercement Tuesday on top of $924,000 in compensatory he was ordered to pay in the aforementioned case a day earlier.
The woman, Minakshi "Miki" Jafa-Bodden, had said Choudhury sexually addled her and wrongfully accursed her for investigating addition woman's abduction allegation.
"This is a acceptable day for women," Jafa-Bodden said in a account afterward the verdict.
Choudhury's attorney, Robert Tafoya, did not acknowledgment calls for animadversion Monday or Tuesday.
Jafa-Bodden formed as arch of acknowledged and all-embracing diplomacy at Choudhury's Los Angeles yoga academy from bounce 2011 until March 2013, if she said she was abruptly accursed from her six-figure position for abnegation to awning up an analysis into a abduction allegation.
"Jafa-Bodden faced backfire and browbeating if she banned to break bashful about witnessing actionable behavior," her attorney, Mark Quigley, said in a statement.
Additionally, Jafa-Bodden said Choudhury sexually addled and afield affected her, and approved to get her to break with him in a auberge suite.
Choudhury, 69, has congenital an authority about Bikram yoga, a rigorous, 90-minute accepted performed in a allowance that can ability added than 100 degrees. The address is accomplished at added than 650 studios common and has fatigued a assemblage of adherent followers.
Choudhury contends he is now about bankrupt.
Jafa-Bodden's blameworthy abortion accusation is abstracted from animal advance lawsuits filed by six added women, 5 of whom allege Choudhury of raping them. One of those lawsuits is in the action of getting acclimatized while the blow are set for balloon after this year.
His attorneys accept said he never sexually assaulted any of the women suing him and that prosecutors had beneath to accompany accuse in their cases.
Mary Shea, one of the attorneys apery the women filing the advance lawsuits, said prosecutors never advised the allegations and that just because accuse weren't filed doesn't beggarly the women aren't cogent the truth.
"These are all actual adventurous women who've had the adventuresomeness to angle up adjoin actual austere action and accessible scrutiny," she said. "If anything, this (verdict) has accustomed them the aplomb to go advanced and allege their truth."
Choudhury accomplished addition above cloister accident in October if he absent an address to absorb his arrangement of 26 poses and two breath exercises.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Cloister of Appeals disqualified that the arrangement acclimated in hot yoga classes is a action advised to advance people's health, so absorb law does not awning it.
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