One woman's legal crusade against Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially been terminated.
In July, a judge dismissed former stuntwoman Rhonda Miller's defamation suit against the California governor and awarded Schwarzenegger the right to collect his legal fees and costs from her.
Rather than doling out the dough, Miller proposed a bargain with the Gubernator?-she wouldn't appeal the judge's ruling if Schwarzenegger wouldn't collect his legal fees from her. Schwarzenegger agreed, sealing the deal.
The whole fiasco began in the days leading up to California's recall election last year. Miller came forward accusing Schwarzenegger of groping her on the sets of Terminator 2 in 1991 and True Lies in 1994.
The day before the recall election, Miller and her camera-friendly attorney Gloria Allred held a news conference detailing the alleged incidents of sexual harassment.
Shortly thereafter, Schwarzenegger aide Sean Walsh issued an email directing eager media types to a Website that contained the criminal record of an accused prostitute by the name of Rhonda Miller.
Turns out, it was a different Rhonda Miller.
Rhonda Miller the stuntwoman rapidly filed her libel suit, claiming she had suffered "enormous financial and emotion damage" and that she couldn't find work in her field due to the sullying of her reputation. (Apparently the stunt industry frowns on prostitution.)
However, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Hess ruled that there was no evidence that Schwarzenegger had any inkling of the contents of Walsh's email before it was dispatched.
"The evidence before the court establishes that Mr. Schwarzenegger neither knew of nor approved the text of the disputed email," Hess stated in his ruling.
"Even were plaintiff not required to demonstrate actual malice by clear and convincing evidence, her presentation would not satisfy the requirement that she show a probability of success on the merits as to Mr. Schwarzenegger."
In other words, Miller was out of luck.
Miller was one of 16 women who came forward with complaints of sexual harassment at the hands of the Kindergarten Cop star in the days before the election.
Schwarzenegger eventually apologized to the women and vowed to investigate the matter, but later dropped it in favor of running California.