{"id":1905,"date":"2008-01-07T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2008-01-07T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:23:13","slug":"seagals-court-brawl-wraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"Seagal&#8217;s court brawl wraps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-seagal7jan07,1,5242832.story?coll=la-headlines-business&amp;ctrack=8&amp;cset=true\">Chuck Philips writes for the LAT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> After six years of legal sniping, actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/steven_seagal.htm\">Steven Seagal<\/a> and his former business partner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/julius_nasso.htm\">Julius R. Nasso<\/a>, buried the hatchet Sunday, ending a bitter court battle that had spawned allegations of contract breach and Mafia extortion.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the confidential, out-of-court settlement, Nasso is expected to drop his $60-million lawsuit against Seagal, which alleged that the actor reneged on an agreement to produce four films with him. In exchange, Seagal agreed to pay Nasso $500,000, according to people familiar with the terms of the settlement. The two men also agreed to sever all ties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;During a partnership spanning more than a decade, Seagal starred in a string of blockbuster hits, including &quot;On Deadly Ground&quot; and &quot;Under Siege 2,&quot; that grossed hundreds of millions of dollars. Nasso helped produce them. The two former best friends were next-door neighbors in New York City&#8217;s Staten Island, where they worked and partied together earlier in their careers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Philips writes for the LAT: After six years of legal sniping, actor Steven Seagal and his former business partner, Julius R. Nasso, buried the hatchet Sunday, ending a bitter court battle that had spawned allegations of contract breach and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steven-seagal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}