Rod Stewart has to pay casino $US2m - Monday 12th of September 2005
A US jury has decided that rock star Rod Stewart should pay a Las Vegas casino $US2 million ($A2.6 million) plus interest for a cancelled show in December 2000.
The seven-member federal jury found unanimously that Stewart should not have kept an advance he was paid for the New Years weekend show at the Rio Hotel Casino which he said he was unable to perform due to throat surgery several months earlier.
Stewart, 60, was not in US District Court when the verdict was reached.
One of his lawyers, Kerry Garvis Wright, said he would appeal.
Steve Morris, a lawyer for the Rio Hotel Casino and its parent company, Harrahs Entertainment, said he was "delighted and relieved" by the verdict.
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