Darkbeer
12-27-2002, 12:38 PM
Husband of Pooh Heiress Could Block Slesinger-Disney Settlement (http://www.american-reporter.com/2004/1.html) - The Americcan Reporter, 12/26/02
QuikQuote: The estranged husband of Beverly Hills Winnie the Pooh heiress Patricia Slesinger told The American Reporter today he has considered blocking a proposed $200 million settlement offered last week by the Walt Disney Co. in her long-running, billion-dollar royalty suit. That could force the complex case to trial early next year.
In a phone call to the paper on Christmas Day, printing executive David Bentson of Beverly Hills, who in a recent deposition said that he is planning to co-author a book about the case, told AR he is weary of being mistreated by his wife and would use community property rights under two marital agreements with Slesinger to block any settlement of the lawsuit, brought by her mother's branding firm, Stephen Slesinger Inc. of Tampa, Fla., in 1991. In a second conversation on Thursday, however, Bentson backed away from an assertion that he would definitely block the case.
QuikQuote: The estranged husband of Beverly Hills Winnie the Pooh heiress Patricia Slesinger told The American Reporter today he has considered blocking a proposed $200 million settlement offered last week by the Walt Disney Co. in her long-running, billion-dollar royalty suit. That could force the complex case to trial early next year.
In a phone call to the paper on Christmas Day, printing executive David Bentson of Beverly Hills, who in a recent deposition said that he is planning to co-author a book about the case, told AR he is weary of being mistreated by his wife and would use community property rights under two marital agreements with Slesinger to block any settlement of the lawsuit, brought by her mother's branding firm, Stephen Slesinger Inc. of Tampa, Fla., in 1991. In a second conversation on Thursday, however, Bentson backed away from an assertion that he would definitely block the case.