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Entertainment & Sports

Sep. 9, 2010

Judge Doubles Actor's Award for Past Profits

A judge on Wednesday awarded actor Don Johnson $28.5 million in pre-judgment interest, more than doubling a jury awardfrom July to about $51 million in his much watched profit-sharing lawsuit.

By Jean-Luc Renault

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A judge on Wednesday awarded actor Don Johnson $28.5 million in pre-judgment interest on the jury verdict the actor won earlier this year, more than doubling the original award to $51 million.

Johnson won the $23 million award in July following a trial in which the actor's personal corporation claimed that production company Rysher Entertainment failed to properly...

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