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...problems have been the chief concern. In 1985, Patti Frustaci of Orange, Calif., gave birth to septuplets; one was stillborn, and three died within 19 days. Cerebral palsy and retardation had been diagnosed by the time the three survivors reached age 3. Ultimately, the family won a $2.7 million settlement against the clinic and the doctor who prescribed fertility drugs for Frustaci. She came back for further treatments, however, and this time gave birth to robust twins. She has since left her family; the children are being raised by their father...
...night of March 3, 1993, in Silver Spring, Md., when contract murderer James Perry suffocated eight-year-old quadriplegic Trevor Horn and fatally shot his mother Mildred Horn and nurse Janice Saunders. Perry was hired by Lawrence Horn, Mildred's ex-husband, who was after a $2 million settlement his son had received for the accident that caused his injuries. Perry bought a copy of Hit Man before the killings, and prosecutors showed that he followed at least 20 of its specific instructions. He stole out-of-state license plates and attached them to a rental car that he drove...
...canvas attributed to Botticelli, to New York, where it was sold by Sotheby's for $690,000 on Jan. 30, even though Kline says he had earlier informed Sotheby's, in writing, of the family's claim to the painting. Sotheby's later helped arrange a six-figure confidential settlement between the Italian seller of the work and the Goodmans, but got to keep its commission of more than $100,000 on the original sale. "We sell thousands of works of art every year and check every one of them with an electronic data bank," explains a spokesman...
...SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between the PISCATAWAY BOARD OF EDUCATION and SHARON TAXMAN, a white business teacher who sued the board for reverse discrimination after she was laid off in favor of a black colleague with equal seniority; for $433,500; in Piscataway...
...Spencer says he is impoverished from inheritance taxes and the cost of visitors to the family estate in Althorp. Many view his claim as an excuse not to give Lockwood a divorce settlement...