The previous prime lawyer on the Movement Image Affiliation of America (MPAA) was sentenced Friday to 1 12 months in jail for sexually abusing and blackmailing a girl he met on a "sugar daddy" relationship web site.
Steven Fabrizio, 58, had beforehand pleaded responsible in July 2021 to 1 depend every of third-degree sexual abuse and blackmail in a Washington, D.C., court docket. The third-degree depend was initially a cost of second-degree sexual abuse, and Fabrizio confronted as much as 15 years in jail between the 2 costs.
Nonetheless, a plea deal lowered the cost to a third-degree offense for the Maryland-based Fabrizio.
As a part of this plea deal, Fabrizio had his unique 30-month sentence lowered to 12 months after he agreed to additionally full three years of probation. As an extra stipulation of the plea deal, he should register as a intercourse offender for the subsequent 10 years.
Fabrizio reportedly had an preliminary consensual sexual encounter with a girl after assembly her on a sugar daddy website, usually described as a transactional relationship course of wherein older males pay youthful ladies. He reportedly paid the girl $400 to carry out sexual acts.
After this primary encounter, a police affidavit states, Fabrizio then blackmailed the girl utilizing textual content messages by threatening to disclose the connection to her household, employer, and landlord if she refused additional sexual liaisons.
This then led to Fabrizio abusing the girl and ultimately forcing her right into a second, undesirable sexual encounter.
The lady then referred to as Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police, and Fabrizio was arrested in August 2019, charged with sexual abuse and blackmail. Upon studying of his arrest, the MPAA fired Fabrizio from his place.
The MPAA instructed The Hollywood Reporter on the time of the arrest that it had no information of Fabrizio's actions, describing them as "stunning and insupportable to the Affiliation."
Previous to his termination, Fabrizio had served as normal international counsel for the MPAA since 2013. On the time he was employed, the MPAA, a movie trade advocacy physique primarily based in Los Angeles and Washington, reportedly referred to as Fabrizio "one of many pre-eminent copyright and content material safety legal professionals within the nation."
Previous to his employment with the MPAA, Fabrizio was a companion for the media and leisure division of regulation agency Jenner & Block. He had additionally beforehand labored for the Recording Trade Affiliation of America as a high-level authorized govt.
This isn't the primary time that Fabrizio has confronted authorized bother, as he was reportedly arrested in 2010, accused of sexual solicitation. An worker of Jenner & Block on the time, the regulation agency beforehand acknowledged that it had no information of this incident.
Based in 1922, the MPAA, which was renamed three years in the past because the Movement Image Affiliation (MPA), is maybe greatest identified for creating the American movie score system. It additionally works to assist eradicate piracy and copyright infringement throughout Hollywood productions.
Newsweek has reached out to the MPA for remark.
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