Kevin Costner has won a court battle against actor Stephen Baldwin who was suing for $17million over an oil deal.
Kevin Costner has won a court battle against actor Stephen Baldwin.
The decision came less than two hours after closing arguments ended on Thursday (14.06.12) and a jury rejected Stephen's claim that he and a friend missed out on a lucrative contract with oil company BP thanks to Kevin and his business partner in oil cleanup, Patrick Smith.
Kevin said: ''My name means more to me than money and that's why we didn't settle.''
Stephen and co-plaintiff Spyridon Contogouris, were asking for at least $17 million in damages at federal court in New Orleans, however were awarded nothing.
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, 'The Bodyguard' actor offered BP the services of a device he had helped develop, and BP contracted to buy 32 of the oil-and-water-separating centrifuges in the summer of 2010.
'The Flinstones in Viva Rock Vegas' star Stephen, an early investor in Stephen's Ocean Therapy Solutions, sold his shares before The Deal went through--and he was demanding the damages sum to fill the hole left by the money he said he could have made if he had known they were on the verge of a lucrative transaction.
The prosecutors' attorney James Cobb stated: ''We're disappointed. We thought we proved rather convincingly that these two guys, Mr. Costner and Mr. Smith, defrauded us. The jury saw it a different way but we respect the jury's verdict.''
To most of the world, Molly Bloom is a beautiful young skiing extraordinaire, but behind...
Even from a young age, Katherine Johnson's family and teachers knew she was made for...
Almost criminally entertaining, this preposterous thriller mixes buckets of humour and emotion into the violent,...
After 2013's beefy Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder goes even bigger and darker with...
Bill Pope is a CIA operative who's been recruited to carryout a very special mission....
When a young girl's mother dies in childbirth, she is sent to live with her...
In 1987, Jim White (Kevin Costner) moved to McFarland in the San Joaquin Valley, Kern...
Essentially this year's Moneyball, but set in American football rather than baseball, this fast-paced drama...
French filmmaker Luc Besson continues to combine family themes with intense violence (see Taken), but...
There's nothing very original in this spy thriller, but director Branagh gives the film a...
Sonny Weaver, Jr. is the general manager of National Football League team the Cleveland Browns...
Ethan Runner is a formidable Secret Service Agent ready to retire from his dangerous employment...
Jack Ryan is a young office worker at CIA headquarters whose life turns upside down...
Jack Ryan is a young CIA analyst who joined Intelligence hoping for a comfortable office...