Author who portrayed prostitute loses NY fraud case
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An author sued by a film company after her novel about life as a truck-stop prostitute was exposed as a hoax was found liable for fraud on Friday in a case involving tales of the author's multiple personalities.
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A New York judge on Monday dismissed a   $10 million spousal abuse suit against Liza Minnelli filed by   her estranged husband David Gest, who claimed the entertainer   assaulted him in a drunken rage.
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A lawyer for a Broadway actor accused of having sexual contact with a 15-year-old girl may not publicize the teen's name in an effort to learn whether she has falsely accused anyone of molesting her, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
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A judge found that the evidence did not support the conviction of a former N.Y.S.E. supervisor who once oversaw trading in General Electric stock.
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Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith has lost a legal battle over half of her husbandâs estate. The ex-modelâs appeal to federal appeals court was handed over back to Texas probate court, who already
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A judge threw out a felony charge against a former mental patient accused of stalking Uma Thurman on Wednesday, leaving him to face two misdemeanor counts at a trial that would likely require the "Pulp Fiction" star to testify.
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A millionaire former bookie who skipped bail and fled the country while facing federal murder-for-hire charges lost his fight against extradition and will soon be returned to Texas, U.S. prosecutors said Friday.
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A judge Monday threw out a $10 million civil assault suit filed against Liza Minnelli by her estranged husband, David Gest, who claimed she beat him so badly during alcoholic rages he had to be hospitalized.
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A former stripper and her lover were acquitted Tuesday of murdering casino heir Ted Binion, who prosecutors say was drugged and suffocated in a plot to steal his fortune of buried silver.
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A US federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a judgment awarding 1993 Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith $88 million from the estate of her elderly billionaire husband J. Howard Marshall.
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By TOM HAYS NEW YORK - A woman who bills herself as the first openly lesbian Playboy Playmate sued a taxi driver, police and the city on Friday, claiming that officers needlessly roughed her up based on the cabbie's false accusation that she was armed and dangerous.
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A former trader at the New York Stock   Exchange was found not guilty on Monday of securities fraud for   his role in a scheme that prosecutors said cheated the Big   Board's customers.
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A court has thrown out a defamation lawsuit against Brigitte Bardot, ruling that the former film star had been provoked into calling the host of Radio Courtesy "a little jerk."
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Richard Hatch, winner of US TV show Survivor, loses his appeal against his conviction for tax fraud.
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Prosecutors dropped a criminal   securities fraud charge against former New York Stock Exchange   specialist Kevin Fee, who had been slated to go on trial   October 3, court documents showed.
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Andrea Yates' murder conviction for drowning her children in the bathtub was overturned by an appeals court Thursday because a psychiatrist for the prosecution gave erroneous testimony that suggested the Texas mother got the idea from an episode of "Law &amp; Order."
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BOSTON - Louise Outing's luck ran out Thursday when a judge denied the 94-year-old woman's request to force the state Lottery Commission to pay her entire $5.6 million winnings up front.  Superior Court Justice Barbara A.