I am pretty confident he didn’t get 250 million. But he did get money from at least two news organizations which is great.
Some think he merely got nuisance payments from the media’s insurance carrier that were less than what the costs would be to defend the case until it was going to ultimately be dismissed. I recall some places where saying court costs would have been around $200,000 until dismissal and so the payment would be around $50,000. I have no idea if any of that is right.
According to some, if it was only a nuisance payment there would have been some type of agreement where he couldn’t claim that the settlement was huge and imply that he crushed them legally. I guess one real sign would be some type of lifestyle change.
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