“I would go to the Devil himself...
“I would go to the Devil himself to save my daughter’s life.”
--Entertainer Wayne Newton, explaining his call to a “casual” acquaintance, a crime figure, to look into death threats against Newton’s daughter after Newton said law enforcement could not help him. Newton announced in Los Angeles that he will accept a $5.3-million libel judgment stemming from a report alleging that he had organized crime ties.
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