LOS ANGELES—The lawyer for one of the awardees in the $370 million defamation lawsuit against Guess co-founder Georges Marciano says the legal battle is not over. Last week, a Los Angeles jury awarded five people $74 million each in the defamation case against Marciano including Lawyer Cheryl Deptowicz-Diaz’s client, 57-year–old Filipino-American Elizabeth Tagle.
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Fil-Ams win big settlement against Guess Jeans founder (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)
On his campaign website for the governorship of California, Guess Jeans co-founder Georges Marciano declares he is “Fighting for the Forgotten Average Citizen” and “Putting People First, Not the Rich”. These sentiments may come as a surprise to the five former employees who have just won $370m (£225m) in a defamation lawsuit against him, brought after he wrongly accused them of conspiring to …
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Jeans mogul Marciano must pay $370m damages to five ex-employees (u.tv)
Five former employees contend Georges Marciano, who is planning to run for California governor, ruined their reputations after he accused them of theft. A Los Angeles jury has awarded $370 million to five former employees of Guess Jeans co-founder Georges Marciano in a defamation suit they filed after the former chief executive accused them of stealing millions of dollars in funds and artwork.
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Guess Jeans co-founder ordered to pay $370 million in defamation lawsuit (Los Angeles Times)
Georges Marciano was holding court at the Polo Lounge last week, making the case why a man best known for the snazzy jeans that made him a multimillionaire should be California’s next governor. A political independent untethered to the usual party schisms is, he argued, the solution to the state’s perennial financial mess.
Continue here: Georges Marciano is rich, so of course he wants to be governor (Los Angeles Times)