CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES

By Harriet Ryan

Feb. 14, 2009 12 AM PT

Samantha Ronson, the deejay companion of actress Lindsay Lohan, has reached a tentative settlement with a noted 1st Amendment attorney she sued for malpractice, her lawyer said Friday.

The tentative deal also resolves a countersuit that New York attorney Martin Garbus brought against Ronson for failing to pay fees stemming from his work on a defamation suit against blogger Perez Hilton.

“The parties have resolved the litigation to their mutual satisfaction,” said Ronson’s current lawyer, David Bass. The terms were confidential.

Garbus did not return a call seeking comment.

-- Harriet Ryan

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Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

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