Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MONTEL WILLIAMS A harassment suit claims he groped employees and conducted meetings in his skivvies...
Branson's friends all insist that he is genuinely shy. Shy? A man who once made a speech dressed in a bunny suit? He admits he will do almost anything to advance his companies. It's an act that plays well, and compared with the standard model overstuffed British executive--well, the comparison just isn't fair. Sir David Frost, the transatlantic television personality and partner in Virgin Radio, says, "Richard has always presented himself as a rebel against the Establishment, although now he is an establishment...
...government case: though the Justice-Laborers pact has been denounced as a sweetheart deal, it was justified. A suit seeking to put the Laborers under government control could have dragged through the courts for years. Even then, it is not certain that Coia would have been ousted. "It is not a crime to be controlled by the Mob," prosecutor Coffey points out. To convict Coia under federal racketeering statutes, the government would have to prove that he committed two felonies as part of a criminal conspiracy. So far, "we don't have enough evidence," says an FBI agent...
Despite Hellman's efforts, her reputation began to ravel in her lifetime, after she sued Mary McCarthy for calling her a liar on TV. Though the suit died with the antagonists, it gave publicity to the fabrications in Pentimento and Scoundrel Time. From the former comes the story Julia, which casts Hellman as a heroic anti-Nazi in World War II. Jane Fonda played Lillian in the movie (Vanessa Redgrave was Julia). None of the yarn was true, but the author stubbornly maintained its veracity...
SUED. MICHAEL JACKSON, 37; for allegedly violating a promise not to talk about a settlement concerning sensational 1993 allegations of child molestation; in Santa Barbara, California. The father of the boy involved says Jackson violated the deal when he appeared in a 1995 PrimeTime Live interview. Jackson says the suit is "meritless...