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Don Imus Dodges the Bullet Again: Rutgers Player Drops Defamation Suit
13-Sep-2007
Written by: Tamikka Malloy
Kia Vaughn of the Rutgers girls basketball team decided to drop her lawsuit against controversial radio talk show host, Don Imus. Vaughn wants to put the focus on her studies and future career plans.
The Rutgers women's basketball player who sued Don Imus last month over his "nappy-headed hos" blast has withdrawn her slander and defamation lawsuit.
In her lawsuit, filed in a Bronx courthouse, Kia Vaughn alleged that the racist and sexual remarks uttered on air by the 67-year-old Imus and his radio sidekick Bernard McGuirk, were "false, defamatory, sexually degrading and slanderous statements" that damaged her reputation and caused her humiliation and embarrassment.
However, Vaughn's lawyer, Richard Ancowitz, released a statement indicating that Vaughn had decided to drop the action and concentrate on her studies as journalism major and her hoop dreams at the New Jersey University. "Her strong commitments to both have influenced her decision to withdraw the lawsuit at this time," Ancowitz said.
Imus' attorney, Martin Garbus, stressed that neither the radio host nor any of the other defendants paid money to Vaughn and denied there was any sort of settlement.
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