Page "Doris Day" Paragraph 22

On September 18, 1974, courts awarded Day $ 22, 835, 646 for fraud and malpractice in an hour-long oral decision by Superior Judge Lester E. Olson, ending a 99-day trial that involved 18 consolidated lawsuits and countersuits filed by Day and Rosenthal that involved Rosenthal's handling of her finances after she terminated him in July 1968.

The civil trial included 14, 451 pages of transcript from 67 witnesses.

Represented by attorney Robert Winslow and the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP, courts awarded Day $ 1 million punitive damages, $ 5. 6 million plus $ 2 million interest for losses incurred in a sham oil venture ; $ 3. 4 million plus $ 1. 2 million interest over a hotel venture ; $ 2. 2 million plus $ 793, 800 interest for duplicate or unnecessary fees paid to Rosenthal ; more than $ 2 million to recoup loans to Rosenthal ; $ 3. 9 million plus $ 1 million interest for fraud, and $ 850, 000 attorney fees for Day.

Olson also enjoined Rosenthal from prosecuting any more lawsuits against Day or her business operations.

( Rosenthal had filed more than 20 suits from 1969 to 1974 ).

Olson, an expert in complex financial marital settlements, read every page of 3, 275 individual exhibits and 68 boxes of miscellaneous financial records.

In October 1979, Rosenthal's liability insurer settled with Day for about $ 6 million payable in 23 annual installments.

Rosenthal continued to file an appeal in the 2nd District Court of Appeal.

He also filed another half-dozen suits related to the case.

Two were libel suits, one against Day and her publishers over comments she made about Rosenthal in her book in which he sought damages.

The other suits sought court determinations that insurance companies and individual lawyers failed to defend Rosenthal properly before Olson and in appellate stages.

In April 1979, he filed a suit to set aside the $ 6 million settlement with Day and recover damages from everybody involved in agreeing to the payment supposedly without his permission.