Known for his topical banter, the judge was off the wall making Hilton laugh as the trial began. She arrived with bodyguards in a gas-guzzling SUV and got no special perks from the court. The celebrity party girl walked in wearing a black-and-white ensemble and killer heels. Moreno must decide whether the star of "The Simple Life" should pay $8 million demanded by a receiver in a fraud case for a production company that went belly up. She is accused of doing a lot less than her contract required to promote the movie bomb "Pledge This!" featuring Hilton as a sorority president at the fictional South Beach University. Chief U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno drew one tough assignment — make Paris Hilton feel at ease in his Miami courtroom.
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Does anyone understand how the damages are to be computed -- it seems highly speculative to use a lost profits analysis on a movie that, if Paris promoted more, would have made x money instead of y?
Posted by: South Florida Lawyers | July 10, 2009 at 07:04 AM