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| Babs Ordered To Fork Over $177 Large In Failed Lawsuit Attempt |
| 2004-05-21 |
| Schadenfreude at its finest. Link via Drudge. Streisand Hit With $177,000 Legal Bill Putting an end to Barbra Streisand’s stalling tactics, a California judge has ordered the singer to cough up $177,000 to cover the legal fees of her victorious opponent in a recent privacy invasion lawsuit. Last May, Streisand sued when a California coastal preservation group posted on its web site an aerial photo showing the singer’s oceanfront Malibu estate. Picture was taken off her property. Bab’s suit is clearly an intimidation tactic. Almost makes me wish for some soil erosion. But her complaint was later dismissed by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Allan J. Goodman, who awarded legal fees to the California Coastal Records Project and the group’s founder Kenneth Adelman. Likely because Bab’s suit was frivolous. I wish Loser Pays was the law of the land. Streisand, though, balked at paying and filed motions challenging the $220,000 being sought by her legal vanquishers. In the below ruling, Goodman just ordered Babs to fork over exactly $177,107.54. This appears to end the Malibu saga--unless the 62-year-old singer has an appeal in mind. (9 pages) I doubt that - why get your head handed to yourself twice, and pay more to boot? |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #5 What kills me is her arrogance that people would cross-index a find the stars map with an obscure aerial photo series of soil errosions in order to invade her privacy. I'm thinking your average stalker would just hop the fence and make it up as they go. This isn't Oceans 11 or Italian Job, this is real life. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-05-21 5:39:16 PM |
| #4 Stephen - I'm pretty sure that those are two separate things; 1) the judge orders Babs to reimburse the defendants $177K instead of the $220K the defendants were originally looking for, and 2) her lawyers bill her for additional time to boot. It's a lose-lose! |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-05-21 2:53:48 PM |
| #3 Wonder if her lawyers received less than $43,000-differ between what plaintiffs asked for and Judge ordered. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-05-21 2:49:37 PM |
| #2 Excellent done in by a landsmann. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-21 2:12:28 PM |
| #1 People. . .People who will sue me. . .are the luckiest people. . .In Malibu. . . |
| Posted by: Oge_Retla_2004 2004-05-21 2:08:28 PM |