Don King Sues ESPN for $2.5 Billion

[wicket]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050112/ap_on_sp_bo_ne/box_king_lawsuit

Boxing promoter Don King filed a defamation suit Wednesday claiming he was portrayed in a false light in an ESPN "SportsCentury" segment aired last May, and his attorney said King is entitled to damages of more than $2.5 billion.

The lawsuit says the program accused King of being "a snake oil salesman, a shameless huckster and worse," claimed the flamboyant promoter underpaid Muhammad Ali by $1.2 million and claimed King — convicted in a 1967 beating death and acquitted in another killing in 1954 — "killed not once, but twice."

Most of the material in the program had been printed or broadcast earlier about King, who has spent much of his career in court, but he said he had just had enough. "I just felt that this was the straw that broke the camel's back and I can't take it anymore, and I'm going to fight back," King said at a news conference. "I seek justice."

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King also has beaten federal charges, including tax evasion and fraud. He served nearly four years in prison for the 1967 beating death of a man who owed him money. In 1954, he killed a man who was robbing a numbers house he operated in Cleveland, but it was ruled self-defense.

[Cha]

1. Bad repuke..Frivolous

lawsuit!

[qanda]

2. I guess he had to hurry up and sue

Before his boy, Bush, took away his right to do so.

[Downtown Hound]

3. 2.5 BILLION?

Hahahahahahahaha! Good luck King! In case you haven't heard, truth is always a defense in cases of libel.

[captainslack]

4. "a snake oil salesman, a shameless huckster and worse,"

NO!!!! Say it ain't so!!! /sarcasm :eyes:

[ucmike]

5. Only in America......................

don king is all those things and worse...but damn he's entertaining.

[NormanConquest]

6. Frivolous lawsuits like these...

are the reason my cable bill keeps going up every year! :evilgrin:

We need tort reform!!!!

[Liberal Veteran]

7. Wait...isn't Don King a republican?

Why is he abusing the justice system by hiring a trial lawyer to sue, then?

[wicket]

8. he sure is!

And he just LOVES Dubya.

[HerbieHeadhunter]

9. Only in America*

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