Post by imSINGLEruRICH on Feb 21, 2007 16:48:54 GMT -5
Billionaire Howard Hughes does not say much in public—and probably with good reason. After more than a decade of reclusive silence, the eccentric industrialist surfaced in 1972 to tell reporters in a nationally broadcast phone conversation that Author Clifford Irving had written a fraudulent Hughes biography.
During the conversation, Hughes not so tactfully referred to his former top aide, Robert A. Maheu, as "a no-good son of a b*tch who stole me blind." The phone call helped send Irving to prison—and Maheu to court with a $17 million suit against Hughes for slander. After nearly three years of legal wrangling, a six-person jury in Los Angeles awarded Maheu $2.8 million in damages, to be paid by the Hughes-owned Summa Corporation. "Hughes used to tell me that "there isn't a man I can't buy or destroy,' " recalled Maheu after his victory last week. "I never realized that included me."
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911557-2,00.html
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During the conversation, Hughes not so tactfully referred to his former top aide, Robert A. Maheu, as "a no-good son of a b*tch who stole me blind." The phone call helped send Irving to prison—and Maheu to court with a $17 million suit against Hughes for slander. After nearly three years of legal wrangling, a six-person jury in Los Angeles awarded Maheu $2.8 million in damages, to be paid by the Hughes-owned Summa Corporation. "Hughes used to tell me that "there isn't a man I can't buy or destroy,' " recalled Maheu after his victory last week. "I never realized that included me."
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911557-2,00.html
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