Alec Baldwin is facing more legal trouble surrounding the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins during production of the movie “Rust” in 2021.
Baldwin and a dozen other associates face a new civil lawsuit filed on behalf of Hutchins’ mother, father and sister in Ukraine. Baldwin shot Hutchins with a gun he was handling while rehearsing a scene on the movie set at Bonzana Creek Ranch near Santa Fe. The actor-producer previously reached a settlement with Hutchins’ widower Matthew Hutchins in October 2022.
“The settlement was for Matthew and his child,” famed attorney Gloria Allred told KRQE recently. “We are now representing others in the family, mom, dad and sister and there has been no settlement for them, as a matter of fact, there has been no outreach to them by Mr. Baldwin to even say he was sorry.”
The lawsuit, filed in California, contains allegations of battery, intentional affliction of emotional stress, negligence and loss of consortium tied to Hutchins's death; the KRQE report said. Allred said the “loss of consortium” claim aims to recover compensation for damages of relationships that are “mutually dependent.”
Halyna moved from Ukraine to the U.S. years ago and consistently sent money home to her family in Ukraine while she was studying and working.
Allred noted that Halyna’s mother is an emergency operating room nurse in a hospital in Ukraine, caring for those injured in the war with Russia.
“It’s our belief that Halyna if she was alive, [would] not have allowed her family to live in the state of affairs in Ukraine right now,” Attorney John Carpenter told KRQE. “Halyna was taken away before the war.”
Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film’s armorer, are also each criminally charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting, the KRQE report said. That case has its first court date scheduled for Feb. 24.