LAW PROFESSOR Wins $1.2M Defamation Case Against Morgan Wright Who Falsely Accused Him ‘With Malice’
Three years ago, University of Minnesota Law Prof. Francesco Parisi beat charges that he anally raped his ex-lover, Morgan Wright. (She previously made similar allegations against her dead ex-husband) It’s too little and much too late for Parisi, a father of five daughters whose reputation was destroyed even as the justice system found serial problems with Wright’s allegations.
She had made progressively worse accusations against Parisi as they battled each other in court over Parisi’s efforts to evict her from the studio he partitioned for her in his condo. She claimed that Parisi “smashed her face into a concrete floor” during the alleged anal rape, leaving her “with three broken teeth, a prolapsed rectum, and a damaged colon,” yet provided no evidence, “not even medical reports, or corroborating accounts from people she might’ve told about the attack.” The timing of the allegation raised red flags: It was days after an appeals court upheld Wright’s eviction.
When a police officer refused to recommend her absurd case for prosecution, Wright essentially went forum-shopping, going back six months later to find a new officer “and the whole thing started over again,” Parisi’s attorney said. While Parisi’s dean cheered his exoneration at the time, many of his students, “especially the women, assumed he was guilty” as soon as he was charged. “Enrollment in his classes dropped by 60 percent with some classes cancelled.”
This is the accuser whom most of Parisi’s students chose to believe:
- Morgan Wright lied about having a degree in music from Julliard, about being a doctor, and having other advanced degrees.
- Morgan has claimed her father was former U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskhold. Dag was a bachelor, likely gay, and died in a plane crash. Morgan adopted his name.
- Morgan claims to be destitute and on disability for a seizure disorder, she lives in a luxury downtown condo and is known to drive a Mercedes convertible.
Sadly, Parisi’s mother died shortly before he was exonerated. Criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield summed up the defamation victory as “a piece of paper” for Parisi.
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