James Franco, who stepped away from acting following a series of allegations of sexual misconduct four years ago, is back in action.

James Franco and his co-defendants agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging he intimidated students at an acting and film school he founded into gratuitous and exploitative sexual situations, court filings made public Wednesday showed.

Actor James Franco is now involved in the ongoing legal drama between former partners Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. He is the latest celebrity to be dragged into Depp's USD 50 million defamation suit against his ex-wife Heard, reported Page Six. Depp's lawyers are sending 'The Deuce' actor a subpoena over a video that shows him getting close with Heard in an elevator, one day after the former couple's marriage-ending fight in 2016.