US EditionGolf legend Jack Nicklaus wins $50M verdict in defamation lawsuit against former business partners
- A Palm Beach County jury on Oct. 20 awarded Jack Nicklaus, the 85-year-old golf legend, $50 million after finding Nicklaus Companies published false facts that caused `ridicule, hatred, mistrust, distrust or contempt.`
- After earlier New York filings, Nicklaus filed the defamation suit responding to claims by Howard Milstein and Nicklaus Companies executives that he considered a $750 million LIV Golf deal and questioned his mental fitness after his 2017 noncompete.
- Attorneys for both sides presented closing arguments Oct. 20, jurors deliberated about four-and-a-half hours before returning the verdict, and a six-person panel cleared Howard Milstein and Andrew O'Brien of individual liability.
- The verdict effectively ends a two-year feud between Nicklaus and former partners Milstein and O'Brien, and Nicklaus embraced family while directing questions to attorney Eugene Stearns; defendants did not immediately comment.
- An April ruling by New York Civil Division Supreme Court Justice Joel M. Cohen affirmed Nicklaus' name rights, and a Florida arbitrator freed him from the noncompete, capping a long dispute over design and business control.
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Niagara Gazette
CNHI NewsNicklaus secures $50 million verdict in lawsuit involving Milstein
A jury has awarded professional golf legend a $50 million verdict in his defamation case against a group of former business partners that included a New York City billionaire who co-owns the private firm that has been the target of…
Los Angeles Times
Independent EspañolProfessional golf legend Jack Nicklaus has won a $50 million verdict in a defamation lawsuit filed in Florida against his former business partners.
Golf legend Jack Nicklaus wins $50m verdict in defamation lawsuit
A six-person jury in Palm Beach County found Monday that the Nicklaus Companies had damaged the 18-time major champion’s reputation and exposed him to ridicule, hatred, mistrust, distrust or contempt According to the lawsuit, Nicklaus, 85, claimed Milstein, O’Brien and others at the company spread false stories that Nicklaus considered a $750 million deal to join the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf League and that he was suffering from dementia
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