William H. Macy Settles $600K Lawsuit from Neighbor Who Claimed He ‘Knowingly’ Destroyed His Trees

• William H. Macy and his neighbor Pierce Brown have reached a settlement following their years-long legal dispute, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE

• The Shameless actor was sued by Brown for $600,000 in April 2023 for allegedly “knowingly and intentionally” cutting down trees belonging to Brown

• Macy denied the claims at the time and said that Brown’s allegations were “careless, reckless, and negligent” 

William H. Macy has finally reached a settlement with his neighbor, Pierce Brown, following a years-long legal dispute over landscaping.

Brown had accused the Shameless star, 74, of “knowingly and intentionally” instructing a team of landscapers to destroy and remove “several healthy, decades-old mature pine trees and other vegetation" from his property. Brown filed the $600,000 lawsuit against the star in April 2023.

According to documents obtained by PEOPLE on Feb. 12, 2025, Brown officially filed a Notice of Settlement of the case on Feb. 11. The filing notifies the court that the neighbors have reached an agreement, leading to a dismissal of the case, per the Judicial Branch of California's official website.

The conditions of their deal remain a secret, however. As stated in the filing made to the Superior Court of Los Angeles, the settlement is “conditional” based upon the “satisfactory completion of specified terms” that are not listed in the document.

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At the time of Brown's initial filing, Macy’s legal team denied “generally and specifically, each and every allegation” of wrongdoing, according to legal documents obtained by PEOPLE. The filing also demanded that the entire case be dismissed on the claim that Brown was being “careless, reckless, and negligent in and about the matters and things alleged.”

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PEOPLE previously reported that in addition to the removal of the trees, Brown claimed in his filing that "Macy acknowledged the entry of his workmen onto the Brown Property, their lack of permission to do so, and their destruction and removal of, and damage to, the Brown's trees and vegetation."

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The lawsuit came four years after Macy’s wife, Felicity Huffman, was involved in the 2019 college admissions cheating scandal. The actress, 62, was sentenced to 14 days in prison after pleading guilty to paying $15,000 to have a proctor change her and Macy’s daughter Sophia’s answers on her SAT test.

Huffman served 11 days of her 14-day prison sentence in October 2020. She was also sentenced to 250 hours of community service and was on supervised release for one year.

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