Alec Baldwin settles with man who he 'punched in the jaw' in 2018 parking dispute
Alec Baldwin has settled with a man who sued him after the 'Rust' actor allegedly beat him up in a fight over a parking spot outside the actor's New York City apartment in November 2018. The fight happened after Wojciech Cieszkowski allegedly occupied a parking spot, Baldwin had been waiting for outside the actor's East 10th Street apartment in Greenwich Village.
Cieszkowski sued Baldwin the following year for assault and slander claiming the actor has 'punched him in the jaw' and 'shoved' him. Baldwin, 63, countersued Cieszkowski for defamation and stated that he fabricated his claim about being punched when in fact he had been 'lightly pushed'. Both men then claimed that a nearby surveillance video would prove their version of events as the correct one.
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The pair settled their claims out of court, notifying a judge in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday, January 31. The men's lawyers said in a joint statement, "Alec Baldwin and Wojciech Cieszkowski have agreed to resolve all litigation concerning the incident that occurred between them on November 2, 2018." They further added, "The terms of the resolution are private and confidential. Neither party will have any further comment."
Previously, a judge didn't consider Cieszkowski's claim that Baldwin slandered him after the actor went on both Ellen DeGeneres's and Howard Stern's talk shows claiming he thought Cieszkowski was going to run wife, Hilaria, over with his car.
Baldwin has had a number of physical and verbal altercations on the streets of New York in the past. The actor pleaded guilty to harassment over the incident in January 2019 and had to pay a $120 fine and was sentenced to anger management classes. In 1995, the actor allegedly punched a cameraman who filmed him and then-wife Kim Basinger returning home from the hospital with newborn daughter Ireland.
In 2011, Baldwin found himself kicked off an American Airlines plane for slamming a bathroom door after being repeatedly told he needed to stop playing Words With Friends while the flight was preparing for takeoff. And in 2013, the actor was suspended for two weeks by MSNBC for an incident in which he called a New York Post photographer a 'c***-s***ing f****t,' with the network then deciding to cancel his show, 'Up late With Alec Baldwin'.
Baldwin is currently under investigation for accidentally shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, on the movie sets of 'Rust' last October. Baldwin recently handed over his phone to the police in order to help with their investigation into the tragic shooting. As of now, the actor has not been charged in Hutchins's death, although lawsuits have been filed.