A jury has ruled against Lisa Kudrow in a long-in-the-system breach of contract lawsuit filed by her former manager Scott Howard.
The trial in LA Superior Court’s Santa Monica Municipal Courthouse was over residuals from the actress’ hit series Friends. Howard will receive about $1.7 million in the suit against his once longtime client, whom he sued in August 2008.
The initial suit claimed that Kudrow long ago promised Howard commissions from lucrative residuals from the reruns and syndication from the 1994-2004 mega-sitcom and other projects – even after he was fired in 2007 after 16 years.
In filings over the years and in testimony last week, Kudrow, who recently appeared on ABC’s Scandal, denied making any agreement.
During the later years of the show, Kudrow, like other cast members, was making over $1 million an episode.
Testimony in the trial wrapped Tuesday. Mark Baute of LA firm Baute Crochetiere & Gilford LLP was Howard’s main attorney, though the manager had hired other firms in the past.
Baute is also the primary lawyer Nicollette Sheridan‘s long on-going claims over her termination from ABC’s Desperate Housewives . Nearly two years after her first trial against ABC/Touchstone ended with a deadlocked jury, the actress was granted a new kick at the courtroom can late last month. Lisa Kudrow’s main lawyer was Gerard Sauer.
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