A previously undisclosed settlement involving former child actress Raquel Lee and actor Mark Curry has surfaced just days after Lee filed a sweeping negligence lawsuit against Disney over alleged sexual abuse she says occurred while making the 2001 Disney Channel movie “The Poof Point.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lee reached a confidential settlement agreement with Curry in 2015, years before her new lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company. Curry played Lee’s father in “The Poof Point,” while Lee was 14 years old during production. Attorney Gloria Allred, who has represented numerous people making sexual misconduct allegations against prominent figures, represented Lee in the private resolution.
One important distinction remains. The Hollywood Reporter has not reported that Lee filed a public lawsuit against Curry in 2015, and the outlet did not disclose the allegations or claims that specifically led to the private settlement. What is confirmed is that Lee and Curry reached a confidential resolution. No settlement amount, financial terms, admission of wrongdoing, or other conditions have been made public. Lee and Curry did not respond to the outlet’s requests for comment about the agreement, while Allred declined to comment.
That distinction is especially important because Lee’s current lawsuit against Disney does not name Curry as the alleged perpetrator. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the complaint identifies the alleged assailant only as a “middle-aged, male employee who was involved in the filming of the movie.” Public reporting has not established that Curry is the unnamed person described in the new filing, and the existence of the 2015 settlement should not be treated as proof of that connection.
Lee’s latest legal action instead targets Disney and focuses on what she claims the company failed to do while she was a minor working on one of its productions.
Lee filed the civil negligence lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on August 21, 2026. The lawsuit alleges that an unnamed Disney employee repeatedly sexually assaulted her during production of “The Poof Point” in Salt Lake City and later during a flight back to California. She also alleges the employee supplied her with alcohol.
The complaint goes beyond the alleged assaults themselves. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lee claims the employee “regularly made sexually explicit jokes and commentary on the set” around minors and harassed her “in plain view” of people working on the production, including “sound technicians managing the cast’s microphones.” The filing states that “no one at Disney intervened.”
Lee also alleges Disney failed to provide adequate adult supervision. The complaint says her assigned guardian was separated from her “for the vast majority of each day.” Disney personnel allegedly encouraged Lee to “bond” and spend time with the unnamed employee, while production failed to keep her properly supervised.
The lawsuit further alleges that the effects of the alleged abuse became visible through major changes in her behavior and work performance. Lee claims executives criticized her “changed behavior and trauma response” instead of examining why a previously dependable child performer was suddenly struggling. She alleges Disney ultimately canceled a role she had been expected to take in another production.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the complaint alleges the employee supplied Lee with alcohol and pressured her to consume it while she was still 14. The filing accuses Disney of failing to intervene despite what Lee says were observable signs that she was being harmed. The lawsuit seeks damages connected to emotional distress and economic losses, along with punitive damages and legal costs. The complaint does not specify a total dollar amount being sought.
Disney had not publicly addressed the substance of the allegations when the reports were published. The company previously declined to comment to The Hollywood Reporter about Lee’s litigation.
Lee continued working with Disney after “The Poof Point.” She voiced Nubia Gross on the animated series “The Proud Family” and later returned for the Disney+ revival “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.”
Her experiences as a child performer also became part of a broader public conversation in 2024. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Lee appeared in the docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” where she discussed her experiences as a Black actress on Nickelodeon’s “The Amanda Show.” She did not discuss her allegations involving “The Poof Point in the series. Afterward, Lee said hearing Drake Bell discuss the sexual abuse he experienced as a child actor was “retraumatizing” for her.
Lee is represented in the current lawsuit by attorney Doug Wigdor, whose firm has handled prominent sexual misconduct cases. The newly revealed 2015 settlement now adds another layer to the story, but the publicly known facts remain limited: a confidential agreement was reached between Lee and Curry, its terms remain private, and Lee’s current complaint against Disney continues to identify the alleged perpetrator without naming him.
