Sylvester Stallone pays millions of dollars to half-sister who claimed he assaulted her for years at the height of his fame

Sylvester Stallone secretly agreed a multi-million deal with his late half-sister amid claims he had abused her for years.

The Rocky star agreed 16 years ago to give Toni-Ann Filiti $2 million (£1.2m).
He also agreed to give her  $16,666.66 (£10,000) per month for her lifetime, as well as a trust with $50,000 (£31,000) per year for psychiatric and medical expenses.

Filiti 'asserted claims for personal injury, including physical injury' against Stallone, who 'vigorously denied and continues to deny and dispute all claims of wrongdoing'.
Sources say Filiti - who died last August at the age of 48 from lung and liver cancer- threatened a lawsuit, but the 66-year-old star settled before it was ever filed.
Filiti was Stallone's half sister from his mother Jacqueline's marriage to Anthony Filiti.
Jacqueline, says the settlement was the result of a 'shakedown' and her son was a victim of blackmail.
She said: 'This was nothing more than a shakedown. Toni-Ann was on 65 Oxycontin pills a day, and she threatened Sylvester. A drug addict will do anything.

'When Sylvester became famous, she didn't have to hook. He was trying to help her. He caved in.
'There were too many conflicting stories. At the time [in 1987] he was very hot, and his lawyers said,
'Give her something just to shut her up.' '
But Filiti's 19-year-old son Edd, hit back saying: 'They've made my mother out to be the black sheep.'
He claims Filiti told him of the abuse allegations by 'screaming about [them] over and over' while in a Florida hospital bed last year.