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MIAMI (AP) — Professional golf legend Jack Nicklaus has won a $50 million verdict in a defamation lawsuit filed in Florida against his former business partners. 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. Nicklaus Companies owner and …

Golf legend Jack Nicklaus was awarded $50 million on Monday in his defamation lawsuit against his former company, Nicklaus Companies, after he accused the company and two executives of spreading false rumors about him considering a $750 million deal to join LIV Golf. A Palm Beach County, Fla., jury reached the verdict after finding that Nicklaus’ reputation was damaged and …

Mark SchlabachOct 20, 2025, 09:11 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia A Florida jury on Monday awarded Jack Nicklaus $50 million in his defamation lawsuit against billionaire banker Howard Milstein and other officials of the company that bears the 18-time major champion’s name. Nicklaus, 85, filed …

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over a $1.4 billion defamation judgment against him for his false claims that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax. In rejecting Jones’ case, the Supreme Court leaves in place the record-breaking sum he was ordered to pay after he was found liable in …

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ last-ditch attempt to block an almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment he faces over false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. The court without comment turned away Jones’ appeal of a state court ruling. Last week he urged the court to urgently intervene, …

Drake’s federal lawsuit against his own record label, Universal Music Group (UMG), for their involvement promoting Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” is officially over after a federal judge threw it out on Thursday (October 9), reports the Associated Press. In her ruling, Judge Jeannette A. Vargas stated that the song is a series of opinions, not defamatory allegations, …

Drake has lost his defamation suit against Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” with a federal judge ruling that the allegedly defamatory statements in the hit diss track qualify as “nonactionable opinion.”  In a ruling published Thursday, Oct. 9, Judge Jeannette A. Vargas stated: “The issue in this case is whether ‘Not Like Us’ can reasonably …

Washington — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to halt a nearly $1.5 billion judgment for making false claims that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax. Jones, the host of the show InfoWars, is asking the high court to freeze enforcement of the record-breaking sum that he was ordered to pay …

Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner are suing Ray J for defamation. In a new 13-page lawsuit filed Wednesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, the duo claim that the R&B singer who dated Kim more than 20 years ago – and appeared in a notorious sex tape with the shapewear mogul – “fabricated” claims that the women are the …