In a Nevada lawsuit, billionaire Daryl Katz is charged with paying a young dancer for sexual favours.

According to reports, a legal lawsuit against the billionaire owner of the Edmonton Oilers claims that he paid a young ballerina $75,000 in exchange for sexual favours.

According to a third-party counterclaim submitted in US District Court in Nevada, Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz was charged with having a sexual encounter with ballet dancer Sage Humphries when she was an underage adolescent. The counterclaim apparently comes in reaction to a 2021 lawsuit brought by Humphries and other ballet dancers against dance instructor Mitchell Taylor Button and his wife Dusty Button, who were charged with sexual abuse.

CBC News reports that the Buttons filed the third-party counterclaim, claiming Humphries was their consenting “throuple sexual partner” when she was 18 years old. The couple, however, asserted that Humphries had sex with Katz and two other men while she was a minor. According to reports, the claim aims to make the men accountable for any harm. According to the allegation, “Humphries was essentially a child prostitute to a billionaire, and her mother supported her in both trafficking her to Katz and laundering the money she was paid.”

On June 26, 2009, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Daryl Katz of the Edmonton Oilers was captured during the first round of the NHL Entry Draft 2009.

An exhibit in the court document that CBC got shows texts that Katz and Humphries are said to have exchanged when they were 53 and 17, respectively. However, it’s not apparent how the texts ended up in the civil lawsuit. “Will you use/keep the money my guys send you for yourself?” Katz reportedly sent the child a letter. Just between us, “And? Even though you are wise above your years given our differences in ages, it wouldn’t be appreciated.

“Yes .. Just between us,” supposedly Humphries replied. “All right, let one of my men email you. The billionaire allegedly said, “He will send you $50,000.”

Katz’s attorney, Robert Klieger, angrily refuted the allegations and dismissed them as “baseless and scurrilous.” In an interview with CBC News, Klieger acknowledged that although his client denied ever having a sexual relationship with the dancer, the two did meet twice that year to talk about a proposal the adolescent was submitting to the billionaire’s movie studio, Silver Pictures. The attorney further stated that he was unable to confirm the veracity of the texts included in the aforementioned court file. He did acknowledge, though, that Humphries did receive $75,000 from Katz as part of a commercial transaction. “In the end, they chose not to take on the project. Nevertheless, they requested assistance to continue funding the project while it was being considered in order to keep it running. And the $75,000 in question is that, according to the lawyer.

The dancers who are suing the Buttons, including Humphries, described their complaint as a “meaningless spectacle” in a statement to CBC News. Attorney Sigrid McCawley stated in his statement that “the Buttons have filed counterclaims that divert from and distort the facts and weaponize the serious allegations of abuse that have been made against them, as is common of abusers facing significant litigation.” Their counterclaims, he continued, “falsely accuse others and are an unjustified attempt to paint the women they abused as liars.”

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