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...Negro handyman and chauffeur whom the magazine said she once employed. Confidential's implication of "indecent acts" is "completely and entirely false and untrue," said her suit (the fifth libel action now pending against Confidential), and exposed her to "disgrace, contempt and ridicule.'' Hollywood Attorney Jerry Giesler, who filed the suit, said his client was not interested in a monetary settlement, would turn over any court award to charity. Her real purpose, said he, was "to defend her good name against the ugly, unfounded and scurrilous attack, ... to discourage this magazine and others of its ilk from...
...Giesler was encouraged in his suits by what happened last week to another Confidential imitator, Rave. After Humphrey Bogart filed a $1,000,000 suit for accusing him of misbehaving in Paris, Rave agreed to print a complete retraction in the issue coming out in August. Rave also got in trouble with a story about the married life of the Hollywood James Masons. Actor Mason slapped on a $1,199,000 suit, and last week won a retraction and a $1,000 settlement out of court. Rave was too broke* to pay the $1,000 damages in one lump...
...After Grand Admiral Doenitz (now in Berlin's Spandau jail), Goebbels (who shot himself), Martin Bormann (still missing, presumed alive), Seyss-Inquart (hanged at Nürnberg), and Gauleiter Paul Giesler (killed...
Divorced. By Marilyn Monroe, 28, No. 1 U.S. movie siren: Joseph Paul DiMaggio, 40, onetime Yankee slugger; after nine months of marriage; in Hollywood. In an underplayed 15-minute courtroom scene, black-suited Cinemactress Monroe stepped forward on cue from famed Lawyer Jerry Giesler, tearfully announced that instead of the "love, warmth and affection" she had expected from Joe, she had found only "coolness and indifference...
Shortly after, Marilyn walked out in a black, form-fitting dress. As reporters crowded around in what was called "a mob scene like something from the French Revolution," Marilyn burst into tears. She was hustled away in a car with Lawyer Giesler. Said the A.P.: "An exit worthy of an Academy Award...