Bikram Choudhury News
Bikram Choudhury Yoga Inc, the studio that popularized doing yoga in sauna heat, has filed for US Chapter 11 bankruptcy, dogged by $16.7 million in legal judgments and numerous lawsuits and allegations of sexual misconduct.
Born in Calcutta, Bikram Choudhury began learning Hatha Yoga poses at the age of three.
The USD 6.5 million in punitive damages are in addition to the $924,000 in compensatory damages Choudhury must pay his former legal aide.
Prominent Indian-American Yoga guru Bikram Choudhury has been asked to pay USD 924,500 as compensatory damages to his former lawyer by a US court over allegations that he sexually harassed her and fired her for probing claims of abuse made by other women against him.
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