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An adult- film actress has dropped her assault lawsuit against reality TV personality Josh Duggar amid evidence that her claims were fabricated. Duggar’s lawyer called the accusations in Ashley Stamm- Northup’s lawsuit “entirely fictitious.” Stamm- Northup is a San Diego woman known as Danica Dillon in adult films. Her lawsuit, filed in November, said she met Duggar while working at a Philadelphia strip club last spring and that Duggar assaulted her when they went to a hotel to have sex. Evidence shows Duggar wasn’t in Philadelphia at the time. His family’s reality television show, 19 Kids and Counting, which chronicled the home life of Arkansas couple Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their children, was pulled from the TLC network in May over revelations that Josh Duggar had molested four sisters and a baby sitter. Josh Duggar is the oldest of the Duggar siblings. In August, he publicly apologized for a pornography addiction and for cheating on his wife.
Actor and marijuana advocate Woody Harrelson is one of more than 60 applicants seeking to open one of Hawaii’s first medical marijuana dispensaries. Harrelson, 54, applied for a license in Honolulu County under his company, Simple Organic Living. The Hawaii Department of Health posted the list of 66 applications on its website late last week. The state is now reviewing applications for dispensary permits, which they will award in April. Video game entrepreneur Henk Rogers applied for a license under his company, Blue Planet Healing, which advocates for energy independence across the state. Rogers, 61, is famous for marketing the video game Tetris more than 20 years ago. He lives in Hawaii in an entirely solar- powered home. Other applicants include Dirk Fukushima, producer of the area television show Hawaii Stars, and former University of Hawaii Regent Charles Kawakami. If selected, dispensary applicants must have $ 1 million in cash before applying for a license, plus $ 100,000 for each dispensary location. All applicants must have been Hawaii residents for more than five years. Under a law passed in 2015, the state will grant eight licenses for marijuana business owners across the islands. The law allows medical marijuana businesses to have two production centers and two retail dispensaries, for a total of 16 dispensaries statewide. Six are allowed on Oahu, four on Hawaii island, four on Maui and two on Kauai. Dispensaries are set to open in July.