Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disguise, she complains of a cold and jet lag (the night before, she signed the first copy of Monica's Story, her tell-almost-all book, in midair while flying from Los Angeles to New York City). As Monica huddles for a moment with her team of media and legal advisers, her mother Marcia Lewis brings in coffee and shows two visitors around the tidy 34th-floor apartment, with its panoramic views of Manhattan and Central Park. "It sounds corny," says Lewis, "but it's peaceful up here. We're above the fray...
...that he used when he asked me those two questions [about my relationship with the President]. So is it possible he did? Yes, but it may have come up somewhere from my subpoena. Maybe it was standard [language provided by my attorney Frank Carter]. I don't know the legal issues surrounding that...
After this ordeal, which preceded a long media nightmare, the Lewinsky family wants to wake up with at least enough cash to pay off Monica's legal bills and those of her friends. Monica's alone are estimated at between $1.5 million and $2 million. She stands to make perhaps $3 million from the book and a British-TV interview that will be sold to stations around the globe...
...booming enterprise, however, has been dogged by legal problems. His business partner, Paul Monea, who produced the infomercial, is facing two separate lawsuits: one by Sugar Ray Leonard, who contends that his name was used without permission in the Tae-Bo infomercial; and another by Seth Ersoff, an entertainment manager who claims he introduced Monea to Blanks and was later denied a share of the profits from Tae-Bo. Monea's lawyer declines to comment on the allegations. But his client's track record isn't reassuring. In 1997 an Ohio court ruled that Monea's company could not sell...
Blanks, who looks like he could take on a Mac truck, distances himself from his partner's legal troubles, preferring to stick to his own pretty remarkable success story. "I was the one who wasn't going to be someone," says Blanks, 43. He was the fourth of 15 children born to a poor black family in Pennsylvania. He had bad hips, dyslexia and (can you hear the Rocky theme music yet?) was nearly kicked out of his first martial-arts class at age 11. Using a mirror to learn the moves and correct for his impairment, he remade himself...