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07 March
2006
Court Orders
Rod Stewart To Pay
£1.7m
A
federal judge has ordered rock star
Rod
Stewart
to pay a Las
Vegas
casino more than £1.7 million for not
returning advance money he was paid before
he cancelled a concert in 2000.
US
district judge Larry Hicks ordered
Stewart's lawyers to pay an additional
£87,730 in contempt-of-court fines
and legal costs for failing to give
information to lawyers for casino giant
Harrah's
Entertainment
before trial last year.
Stewart's
solicitor, Louis "Skip" Miller in Los
Angeles, declined to comment on the
sanctions but did say Stewart intends to
appeal.
Hicks'
judicial order orders Stewart to pay the
£1.1 million advance he was paid by
the Rio hotel-casino and more than half a
million pounds in interest, penalties and
legal fees.
The
British rocker and his lawyers are jointly
responsible for paying the
fines.
Harrah's
lawyer Kristina Pickering in Las Vegas
called the civil breach-of-contract
judgment "the right result" and "a long
time coming."
The
casino company intends to ask the court to
order Stewart to reimburse it for
additional solicitors' fees and court
costs, Pickering said.
The
judgment resulted from a September 7 2005
federal jury finding that Stewart should
not have kept an advance he received for a
December 2000 New Year's weekend show that
he said he was unable to perform because
of throat surgery he'd had several months
earlier.
Jurors
believed the rocker should have returned
the advance if he did not perform, the
jury foreman said later.
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