FDNY widow settles with Ed Norton’s movie firm over deadly ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ set hearth
The widow of fallen FDNY firefighter Lt. Michael Davidson has settled with Ed Norton’s movie firm over the blaze that took her husband’s life five years ago on the movie set of “Motherless Brooklyn,” new court docket papers present.
Eileen Davidson settled her suits over the March 22, 2018, loss of life of her husband with manufacturing firms together with Class 5, Inc., in response to paperwork filed in Manhattan Supreme Court docket final week.
She additionally settled with the owner of 773 St. Nicholas Ave., the Harlem constructing the place the fireplace broke out, the filings present.
The phrases of the settlement weren’t disclosed and attorneys and reps for the events didn’t return requests for remark Monday.


Davidson alleged in her lawsuit that landlord Vincent Sollazzo Lampkin and the manufacturing firms altered the constructing, making it extra harmful.
FDNY investigators have mentioned a defective boiler sparked the lethal blaze.
Displaced residents of the constructing additionally filed suit towards the owner and movie firm and people instances have since been settled.