On the expectation that leisured multi-millionaires would be lining up to spend time with her, 60-year-old Erie, Pa. grandmother and social worker Anne Majerik paid big bucks to Beverly Hills, Calif. matchmaker Orly Hadida. The dates were duds, but her consolation prize was an L.A. jury’s $2 million award. Both sides had been in court before fighting matchmaking-disgruntlement actions against other parties. The jury forewoman said her colleagues wished they could punish Hadida without rewarding Majerik, but an award to charity wasn’t an option. (Jessica Garrison, “Woman Gets $2 Million in Matchmaker Lawsuit”, Los Angeles Times, May 31; Lattman, May 31).
Paid matchmaker $125K, sent on dud dates
On the expectation that leisured multi-millionaires would be lining up to spend time with her, 60-year-old Erie, Pa. grandmother and social worker Anne Majerik paid big bucks to Beverly Hills, Calif. matchmaker Orly Hadida. The dates were duds, but her consolation prize was an L.A. jury’s $2 million award. Both sides had been in court […]
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I wonder if I could sue my friends who set me up on blind dates with women who supposedly have “great personalities?”
“Body like a supermodel”? Oops, they meant “like a Supershuttle.”