Shatner's $170m lawsuit from 59 year old claiming to be his son.
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Wow. What a positively odd story. I have no factual evidence to base it on, but I somehow feel this guy's fishing for something that ain't there. Just a gut feeling. Something just seems wrong about all this.
Wow. And would someone lying demand a paternity test?
He could be bluffing.
I agree that this kind of thing is nobody else's business. Aren't there ways to go about this without making a big public spectacle of it?
Kor
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At the risk of being accused of stereotyping, there seems to be a move toward a culture of litigation in recent years in the US.
It seems that the onus should really be upon Mr. Sloan to prove that he is Mr. Shatner's son, not upon Mr. Shatner to disprove it.
Here's the Page Six article:
http://pagesix.com/2016/03/28/man-claiming-to-be-william-shatners-son-sues-for-170m/
Feel free to groan at the clever Trek references interspersed throughout.
Kor
It seems that the onus should really be upon Mr. Sloan to prove that he is Mr. Shatner's son, not upon Mr. Shatner to disprove it.
Here's the Page Six article:
http://pagesix.com/2016/03/28/man-claiming-to-be-william-shatners-son-sues-for-170m/
Feel free to groan at the clever Trek references interspersed throughout.
Kor
Gulp! I think I'll hide my cash now...
JB
JB
A douche with severe daddy issues. The guy's 59 years old and he's doing this - still acting out like a petulant child?? How does he think he's entitled to anything? Yeah, this is something idiotic that really didn't need to go public. Hopefully the Shat-Man will counter-sue and shut his little whiny ass up.
Sometimes stereotypes wouldn't be stereotypes if there wasn't some tiny little nugget of truth to them at their core. Yes, frivolous lawsuits have been running rampant in the US, really since the 90's, from what I recall. Here's a cute little infographic on the subject.
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Not sure how accurate this is, but my understanding is Shatner obtained a fair amount of Priceline stock that was able to convert to several hundred million.
KIRK: I did what you wanted. ...I stayed away. ...Why didn't you tell him?
CAROL: How can you ask me that? Were we together? Were we going to be? You had your world and I had mine. And I wanted him in mine, not chasing through the universe with his father. ... Actually, he's a lot like you. In many ways. Please tell me what you're feeling.
KIRK: There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me. You show me a son that'd be happy to help him. My son. ...My life that could have been, ...and wasn't. And what am I feeling? ...Old. ...Worn out.
CAROL: How can you ask me that? Were we together? Were we going to be? You had your world and I had mine. And I wanted him in mine, not chasing through the universe with his father. ... Actually, he's a lot like you. In many ways. Please tell me what you're feeling.
KIRK: There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me. You show me a son that'd be happy to help him. My son. ...My life that could have been, ...and wasn't. And what am I feeling? ...Old. ...Worn out.
It's time to call the professionals...
Breaking news : the judge has ordered both parties to sit down and give their version of events at a neutral venue...the Genesis cave.
Yes...we had a look at this once in the forum. Depending on if/when he sold, hr could have done very nicely. He, naturally, reckons the stock he was granted was worth peanuts and he sold at the wrong time.
But he allegedly has sonething better. If, as is rumoured, Shatner has a 5% stake in Star Trek itself (dating back to 1965 as part of his contract), then you could be talking serious, serious money.
Don't discount the fortune could have amassed from forty years of conventions. He doesn't pay for meals, and allegedly pockets every cent of the autograph and photo op money on top of his appearance fee. At $150 a photo or signature, that's about $27,000 for three hours' work. Nice work Bill!
The way I heard it, when Shatner was flat broke in the early 1970s, he had to sell his stake in Star Trek back to the studio. And this was at a time when nobody thought Star Trek was worth very much. In other words, he had to sell at the bottom and got very little for it.
Good news. Shatner and Sloan met to try to find a way to end this mess. Photo of meeting in link. Say what you will, Sloan does resemble the Shat.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fp651-ZmwRs/TJN4mOWDvYI/AAAAAAAAB3g/2nkNIqtM360/s1600/tuc0499.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Fp651-ZmwRs/TJN4mOWDvYI/AAAAAAAAB3g/2nkNIqtM360/s1600/tuc0499.jpg
Memos at UCLA confirm that Shatner had 5% profit participation in Star Trek, at least in 1965 (I have no idea how his 1969 divorce may have affected this percentage, for example). Page 500 of David Alexander's Roddenberry biography details how Shatner and Roddenberry successfully pressured the studio into paying up for the first time after threatening an audit in 1986. Roddenberry's portion of the profits at the time was $851,000; Shatner's portion would have been less than that.
In other words, valuable, but not hundreds of millions of dollars valuable.
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