Jury awards Ventura $1.8M in Chris Kyle defamation case

[CJ]

Either way it would be a class act for Jessie to donate the entire amount to some kind of charity that benefits the families of fallen SEALs

Let's see this happen.

[Sleeper]

Someone knows exactly what happened.

Ventura got some cash out of the deal. He was a has been way before all of this.

[Rick Modena]

What a scumbag. Broke dick needs money.

Yup, probably up to his ass in debt and decided this would be a good way to earn money (a shitty way).

[BP]

I don't think the judgement can be increased, even if there is a movie deal. They just need to leave any mention of Ventura out of the movie.

They could argue that the movie wouldn't be as popular if it wasn't for the book. It'd be a good will effort to offer him a cameo in it, where he gets his ass kicked.

[jw33]

I definitely don't agree with the award amount but I can understand why Ventura did sued. You can't drag someone's name through the mud with a made up story like that. On that note, before his death, was Kyle ever able to present evidence to back up his claims?

All that said, IMO, from a publicity standpoint, Ventura would well served to excuse a big chunk of that money. He got his reputation back and the man is dead. There is no reason to hang this on the man's wife..

If it was a made up story then that is a shitty thing to say about another SEAL, but who knows. Obviously the court saw it Ventura's way and I'm sure the above article barely scratches the surface as far as evidence/testimony that was presented to the jury.

Either way it would be a class act for Jessie to donate the entire amount to some kind of charity that benefits the families of fallen SEALs

[CJ]

What a scumbag. Broke dick needs money.

[Rick Modena]

I wanna see him get decked in a movie

haha, that would be nice. Have some jerk off talking shit at the Seal reunion and then show Kyle floor his old ass. Of course he would probably sue, again.

[TeeShock]

I wanna see him get decked in a movie

[Sgt Beavis]

Hopefully it gets paid out before she signs a movie deal, it might be worth 20x as much.

I don't think the judgement can be increased, even if there is a movie deal. They just need to leave any mention of Ventura out of the movie.

[BP]

Hopefully she can appeal it

Hopefully it gets paid out before she signs a movie deal, it might be worth 20x as much.

[Sgt Beavis]

I definitely don't agree with the award amount but I can understand why Ventura did sued. You can't drag someone's name through the mud with a made up story like that. On that note, before his death, was Kyle ever able to present evidence to back up his claims?

All that said, IMO, from a publicity standpoint, Ventura would well served to excuse a big chunk of that money. He got his reputation back and the man is dead. There is no reason to hang this on the man's wife..

[Rick Modena]

Yeah he is, I hope he doesn't get a single fucking penny from CK's estate...

[streetdemon70]

Ventura is a piece of shit.

[Ted]

Hopefully she can appeal it

[Rick Modena]

So who has to pay that?

It reads that CK's wife, since she is in charge of his estate.