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There's Pompey's conservative sister, Electra publicans (Aaron R. Zelman '95), and her Yale-educated slave Lucinda Lipps (J.P. Anderson '95). (She's Yale-educated, and she's a slave Get it?) They scheme to get Electra's airheaded daughter, Caesonia Phase (Adam D. Feldman '95) interested in the would be successor to the Roman throne, nerdy Nero Sited (Thomas F. Giordano...
...Tracking the story was a full-time job for many newshounds -- 250 littered the lawn of the Superior Court building in Santa Monica last week to hear the announcement of the epochal compromise -- and for the two squads of lawyers. The main attorneys got high marks for their work. "Feldman publicized, publicized, publicized, and then got the big settlement," says New York City attorney Raoul Felder. "Cochran and Howard Weitzman did a good job by hobbling the criminal case...
Court-appointed psychiatrists had already reported that the boy would be harmed by testifying, but Feldman kept insisting he would bring the case to court. He also filed for the singer's financial records, almost certainly so that he could attach to them -- for all the media to see -- a transcript of ; the boy's deposition, which contained a gruesome list of Jackson's alleged pedophiliac predations. "The media ran with it," says Malcolm Boyes, producer of the tabloid TV show Inside Edition, "and it helped Feldman push the settlement...
Time: that was the ace up Feldman's sleeve. He knew Jackson was slated to make a deposition in the civil suit on Jan. 18. The star's lawyers faced three unsavory options: let Michael talk and possibly strengthen the prosecution's case against him; have him take the Fifth Amendment and a severe public relations hit; or pay the king's ransom. All Feldman had to do was let the clock tick and the meter run up. Sure enough, Jackson's team got the deposition postponed for a week, by which time negotiations for a settlement were well advanced...
...Feldman and his client are a wealthy man and boy. The attorney's contingency fee could be in the $5 million to $15 million range, and he would be worth it, considering that according to Pellicano, $20 million was the amount demanded by the boy's father last year. The trust will ensure that not all the millions end up in the parents' pockets. But how much will the megarich star be left with? Reportedly, Cochran has asked TIG Insurance, the Transamerica subsidiary that holds Jackson's personal-liability policy, to cover the settlement...