LILIAN GISH SUED.
EX-EMPLOYER AND FIANCE CLAIMS £1,006,000, CONSPIRACY ALLEGED. Los Angeles June 25. Charles Duell, formerly the employer and fiance of Lillian Gish, has filed a five million dollar suit against Lillian and her mother. The Metro-Goldw’} Corporation. Metro-Goldwyn-Loewes Incorporated. Nick Sheck. Louis Mayer and the attorneys, Louis Levy anu Robert Rubin, also are sued. Duell alleges conspiracy to deprive him of Lillian Gish’s screen services and to ruin him financially and nrofessionally. as a result of which ne claims he has suffered 3,000,000 dollars’ worth of actual damages. In addition. Duell asks for 2,000,000 dollars as punitive damages. Plaintiff said: “The complaint speaks for itself of three years’ corruption and hypocrisy, which I will expose. “The consequences will be the most far-reaching the film industry has ever faced. ~ The outcome will shock the country and will reach every self-respecting home in the land.’’ The complaint states that in January, 1924. Duell divorced his wife, and Lillian Gish became engaged to marry him. Through his promotion of her and his direction and advice. Lillian became one of the most famous of all sreen attractions.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 176, 11 July 1927, Page 8
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