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New York will pay Anthony Broadwater, the man who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for raping author Alice Sebold. more than $5 million after he filed a lawsuit following his release.
Producer Anthony Mucciante, left with Anthony Broadwater this week, hired a private investigator to look into the rape case after being fired from an adaptation of Sebold's memoir Lucky.
In 1981, Sebold was raped in a park near Syracuse University, where she was a 19-year-old freshman in college. The attack was the subject of her 1999 memoir, Lucky, which sold over 1million copies.
Anthony Broadwater, 61, was convicted of raping Sebold in 1982. He spent 16 years in prison and was released in 1998. Since then, he has lived quietly with his wife in Syracuse, New York.