Ethan Krasnoo is a partner of RPJ Law who represented Samuel Schultz in the case which is believed to be the first time that a same-sex rape by and of adults has been prosecuted in Houston, if not the State of Texas. Throughout his career, Krasnoo has been a strong advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community having provided pro bono services {…}
Baritone Samuel Schultz is calling out the Metropolitan Opera for opening the season with “Dead Man Walking” and casting Susan Graham. Schultz took to social media and said, “The Metropolitan Opera opens this season with Dead Man Walking, an opera that explores a nun’s push to remove the death penalty for a convicted rapist/murderer. In the story, the victims are {…}
Countertenor David Daniels and his husband Scott Walters are set to go on trial on Friday, August 4 over charges that they sexually assaulted singer Samuel Schultz after a performance in 2010. According to the New York Times opening arguments will begin in Houston and Daniels and Walters face one felony count of aggravated sexual assault. Daniels and Walters are accused {…}
Samuel Schultz is entitled to more than $1 million in attorneys’ fees and legal costs, a Miami federal judge ruled. Bloomberg Law is reporting that the $971,842 in fees the company must pay is less than half the $2.1 million Samuel Schultz’s lawyers sought in the Americans with Disabilities Act case, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida {…}
The Royal Caribbean cruise ships will pay baritone Samuel Schultz $300,000 to settle a lawsuit. In May 2018, Schultz sued the cruise line alleging discrimination under U.S. ADA legislation after Royal Caribbean fired him because the company’s psychiatric evaluation established that Schultz had a risk for mental depression working on the confines of a cruise ship for weeks at a {…}
Samuel Schultz has resigned from the position of vice president of the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA). The baritone wrote a letter to AGMA announcing that he would leave the board after leaking information of an alleged settlement between Plácido Domingo and AGMA. He wrote, “Without [Gecker’s] tenacious reporting, Domingo’s abuses of female AGMA members would never have come {…}
Editor’s Note: This piece has been edited as statements have come out regarding the situation. Following accusations of sexual harassment, numerous opera personalities have come in defense of Plácido Domingo. In the wake of accusations by nine women, opera stars have taken to Twitter, Instagram, and news outlets to defend their colleague. Among them is Bulgarian superstar soprano Sonya Yoncheva {…}
Baritone Samuel Schultz has accused David Daniels and husband Scott Walters of rape, though the couple has denied allegations. In a report by the New York Daily News, the baritone claims that the countertenor and his then-boyfriend drugged and raped him in a hotel room. According to the report, after meeting “Daniels and Walters at a closing night party on {…}