Charlie Sheen to disclose he is HIV Positive on Today Show

[broncofan]

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Cal. Health and Safety Code § 120291
and acts with the specific intent to infect the other person with HIV, is guilty of a felony. A person's knowledge of his or her HIV-positive status, without additional evidence, is not sufficient to prove specific
intent.
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Just thought this part was interesting. I only skimmed the rest, but under this section, you would have to be having sex with the person in order to (or for the purpose of) give them hiv. It would not be sufficient that you know you have it, and have unprotected sex while concealing your status. This one is probably off the table, even for Charlie. Probably only applies to people who have said they are trying to infect as many people as possible or where it can be inferred from their actions.

[GroobySteven]

a) It was not a comprehensive list, b) yes Eddie Murphy (I think he was into Summer St Cerly), and c) I have never heard of Gavin Rossdale...guess I will have to google him. All of this being more interesting than Charlie Sheen, who to me is a minor figure with little talent if Half a Man or whatever it is, is anything to go by.

Hugely talented - but wasted it. Platoon, Wall St. Had same drug issues as his father, who is also talented but was able to get past it.

[dreamon]

Just thought this part was interesting. I only skimmed the rest, but under this section, you would have to be having sex with the person in order to (or for the purpose of) give them hiv. It would not be sufficient that you know you have it, and have unprotected sex while concealing your status. This one is probably off the table, even for Charlie. Probably only applies to people who have said they are trying to infect as many people as possible or where it can be inferred from their actions.

There have been several cases of that here in California so I wouldn't be surprised if that's why they created that particular law. There was one guy here in San Diego recently that was convicted of that.

[dreamon]

Hugely talented - but wasted it. Platoon, Wall St. Had same drug issues as his father, who is also talented but was able to get past it.

It's not a major work of art like those you mentioned, but I love Major League as well.

[lifeisfiction]

If they are settling out of court for large sums of money it's the same thing as winning (the attorney who negotiates the settlement would also get paid). Also, why would someone sign an nda unless they are being paid damages? If he told his partners he did not have hiv and then transmitted it to them, it probably won't matter how crafty his attorneys are.

Your missing the point. One lets get it straight we don't know what exactly transpire. Don't assume. So there is information missing we don't know and you should always proceed with caution and verify information. When you sue you just don't go to trial over night. In pretrial I would look to do what I can to limit corroboration which is essential to witness testimonies.

The thing that keeps going through my head is that they have to prove that he is the source of infection. The majority of people he slept with engaged in prostitution. They will have to show that he is the sole source of infection. It can only be said if they engaged in risky behavior with him what about other clients. I don't know the rules of evidence in California (I am not going to look), but in New York if you have been active in the last three years in prostitution it's something to be consider. This is the hardest hurdle. Just because you have HIV and he has HIV, what other clients you see also had HIV or aware the HIV status. I am sure it will be easy to prove. Like I said it is no slam dunk. This is only one of the problem areas they are going to have to overcome.

[broncofan]

The reason I used the word if in my post was to account for the possibility he is not at fault. I said if he habitually lied to his partners, and had unprotected sex with them, he will likely find himself in a legal quagmire. If someone he lied to and gave hiv to ends up suing him, I don't imagine he proceeds all the way to trial just to argue he is not the source of infection. Yes, he would have to be the source of infection to have caused their hiv, but in that hypothetical he would be arguing that he lied about his status and then ejaculated in someone else's body but that other people might have been a source of infection. Why would he proceed to trial on a set of facts like that?

Yes, it's the type of case a lawyer working on contingency would pursue, if only to obtain a settlement. And if it proceeds to trial, it's not a slam dunk, but people settle to avoid the worst case scenario.

As a final issue, I'm not really sure what you're arguing. A page or so back you were talking about how ironclad non-disclosure agreements are. Why would he have someone sign an nda if he's WINNING?

[dreamon]

life, I would suggest reading this article. He is going to get the living crap sued out of him.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...n-condoms.html

Charlie Sheen's Ex-Girlfriend Bree Olson: He Never Told Me He Had HIV, We Had Unprotected Sex, Occasionally Used Lambskin Condoms

“I am here to admit that I am, in fact, HIV-positive.”

On Tuesday morning, acclaimed Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen sat down for a candid interview with the Today show’s Matt Lauer and said he’d been living with HIV for four years. He said he felt compelled to come forward after enduring a “barrage of attacks and sub-truths” in the tabloids, and paying up to $10 million in “shakedowns” and “extortion” over his condition. In one instance, he claimed a prostitute took a photograph of his antiretroviral medications and blackmailed him.

Lauer also asked Sheen, “Have you, since the time of your diagnosis, told every one of your sexual partners before you had a sexual encounter you were HIV-positive?”


“Yes, I have,” Sheen replied, adding, “No exceptions.”


Well, Sheen’s ex-girlfriend, the former porn star Bree Olson, begs to differ.

If you recall, Olson was one of Sheen’s two live-in girlfriends—along with Natalie Kenly, whom Sheen had met in a treatment program. Sheen labeled the women the “goddesses,” and they were by the Two and a Half Men star’s side during his highly publicized meltdown and anti-Semitic rant against that show’s creator, Chuck Lorre.


In an interview with The Daily Beast after their split, Olson claimed she was “miserable and waiting for it to end,” and that she was the one who one day packed up her things and left Sheen’s chaotic mansion.


During his interview with Lauer, Sheen said he was diagnosed HIV-positive back in 2011, “on the heels” of his public downward spiral—and while he was dating Olson. She says the two remained together for around seven months.

Well, Olson appeared on The Howard Stern Show Tuesday morning following Sheen’s Today Show reveal. According to Stern, she appeared “shaking and upset” as she entered the studio.


Asked when she learned Sheen had HIV, Olson replied, “Right along with everyone else. Three days ago, I started getting calls—it was right when everything happened in Paris. Fox and everyone else started getting at me in emails, and even I wanted to blow it off [thinking], ‘Oh, this is just another Charlie thing,’” she said.

“He never said anything to me,” Olson added. “I was his girlfriend. I lived with him. We were together. We had sex almost every day for a year—with lambskin condoms.”

Lambskin condoms, by the way, do not prevent the transmission of HIV—they only prevent pregnancy. Olson told Stern that while she preferred standard condoms, lambskin was Sheen’s condom of choice.


Olson, who had driven from her hometown in Indiana to New York for the sit-down interview with Stern, brought in her HIV test, which she then presented to the radio host.


Stern observed her HIV test and read, “no HIV antibodies were detected.”


“I am negative for HIV,” said a relieved Olson.


Before shacking up with Sheen, Olson was a prolific porn star, but says she “left the industry” for Sheen and never returned. Recently, she appeared in the horror film Human Centipede 3.

When asked whether or not she feels betrayed, Olson paused. “I have not spoken to him in quite some time,” she said. “I had spoke nothing but positive things about Charlie. I have never said a negative thing, I’ve never torn him apart in any way, but I am so upset. I couldn’t be more angry. I’m shaking, I’ve been crying… to think that someone could do that to me. I loved him. He was my boyfriend.”

“He just admitted right in that [Today] interview that [the diagnosis] is during the ‘tiger blood’ time. That’s when I was with him!” she continued. “I was living with him. We were sleeping together every night. [He] never said a thing, ever. ‘I’m clean,’ he told me. ‘I’m clean, I’m clean,’ because I didn’t want to use lambskin, I wanted to use regular condoms… I trusted him.”


In his interview with Lauer, Sheen described the side effects he faced living with HIV, including a series of debilitating “cluster headaches and migraines,” as well as night sweats.


“I remember that [sweating],” Olson said. “He would wake up all the time in the middle of the night complaining of these symptoms, and he would blame it on steroids—these steroids he took.”


Indeed, during his Today chat, Sheen chalked up his “tiger blood” time to “’roid rage.”


“A doctor came to the house all the time and they’d go into a room by themselves,” added Olson. “He always told me, ‘This is for my steroids.’”


While Sheen claimed that many women had shaken him down in the past, Olson was adamant that she’s been an incredibly loyal ex. “I never went and sold any of my stories,” she said, even claiming to have turned down a $200,000 offer for a sit-down interview following their split.


“It’s illegal,” she said of Sheen’s non-disclosure.


Indeed, Sheen’s home state of California makes it a felony punishable by up to eight years in prison for a person with HIV to have unprotected sex with the intent to infect someone to whom they haven’t disclosed their status. Also, California has a misdemeanor charge carrying up to six months in prison for willfully exposing others to HIV.


When asked what sort of action she’ll take, Olson said wasn’t sure.

“I haven’t even thought about anything, but all I know right now is now, because of him, every time someone hears my name they think of HIV right next to it,” she said, later adding, “He doesn’t even value my life.”

[youngblood61]

I hope he has got plenty of money.

[giovanni_hotel]

Bree Olson is full of shit.

She doesn't even have HIV so what the fuck are her damages???
Good luck for any escort who tries to sue Charlie Sheen for contracting HIV.lol

[youngblood61]

She doesn't have it now. They slept together for years,so it's hard for me to believe she won't contract it at some point. Regardless if you believe her or not Sheen should have told her.