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Meanwhile, in Los Angeles Superior Court, Scott Thorson--a former lover of Liberace who filed a palimony suit against the late entertainer in 1982--pleaded guilty Monday to a robbery charge that carries a three-year state prison sentence. Thorson is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 24. Prosecutors said Thorson and four other men robbed a man and a woman in a Hollywood apartment last September of money and cocaine. Thorson sued Liberace in 1982 claiming that in return for being Liberace’s “significant other,” the entertainer promised him $70,000 a year for life and other gifts. Liberace, who died of AIDS in February, 1987, denied there was such an agreement, and a judge rejected palimony claims in 1984. Thorson eventually received $95,000 in settlement.