Update, with full Sparks statement Nicholas Sparks is turning the page on his long-running legal fight with the former headmaster of the private Christian school he founded in North Carolina. A jury decided in The Notebook author’s favor Wednesday, saying he doesn’t owe the man a thing after a five-year court battle.
Saul Hillel Benjamin had sued Sparks in 2014, claiming that the author fired him without cause the year before and then slandered him to school officials, a job recruiter and others. The ex-head of the Epiphany School of Global Studies, a private Christian academy that Sparks founded in his hometown of New Bern, had contended that the writer fired him without a reason then told people that Benjamin had a mental illness.
He had held the job less than half a year and claimed that Sparks bowed to pressure from some parents who objected to the headmaster...
Saul Hillel Benjamin had sued Sparks in 2014, claiming that the author fired him without cause the year before and then slandered him to school officials, a job recruiter and others. The ex-head of the Epiphany School of Global Studies, a private Christian academy that Sparks founded in his hometown of New Bern, had contended that the writer fired him without a reason then told people that Benjamin had a mental illness.
He had held the job less than half a year and claimed that Sparks bowed to pressure from some parents who objected to the headmaster...
- 8/22/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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