{"id":2313105,"date":"2026-03-05T00:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2313105"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:42:11","slug":"matlock-actor-david-del-rio-goes-to-arbitration-with-cbs-for-firing-him-over-sexual-assault-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/matlock-actor-david-del-rio-goes-to-arbitration-with-cbs-for-firing-him-over-sexual-assault-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Matlock\u2019 Actor David Del Rio Goes to Arbitration With CBS for Firing Him Over Sexual Assault Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Del Rio<\/a> is fighting his firing from \u201cMatlock\u201d following sexual assault allegations late last year.<\/p>\n

According to Del Rio\u2019s lawyer Shawn Holley<\/a>, Del Rio went into arbitration against CBS Studios<\/a> to \u201caddress false and misleading allegations that caused substantial professional and reputational harm.\u201d The news came after a closed-door meeting between the fired actor and a \u201cMatlock\u201d producer.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the arbitration, Mr. Del Rio will present real-time text communications and evidence that directly contradicts prior public characterizations of the interaction at issue,\u201d Holley<\/a> said in a statement. \u201cThis evidence was not fully considered before adverse employment action was taken. Mr. Del Rio looks forward to resolving this matter…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Del Rio is fighting his firing from \u201cMatlock\u201d following sexual assault allegations late last year. According to Del Rio\u2019s lawyer Shawn Holley, Del Rio went into arbitration against CBS Studios to \u201caddress false and misleading allegations that caused substantial professional and reputational harm.\u201d The news came after a closed-door meeting between the fired actor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2313106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2313105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018Matlock-Actor-David-Del-Rio-Goes-to-Arbitration-With-CBS.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313107,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313105\/revisions\/2313107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}