Rod Stewart ordered to pay casino $2 million
A federal jury decided Wednesday that rock star Rod Stewart should pay a Las Vegas casino $2 million plus interest for a canceled show in December 2000.
The seven-member jury found unanimously that Stewart should not have kept an advance he was paid for the New Year’s 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 U.S. District Court when the verdict was reached. One of his lawyers, Kerry Garvis Wright, said the rock star will appeal.
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