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Article: Warner tells court Roseanne said she could outsell Rivers.(Stanley Warner, Roseanne Arnold, Joan Rivers)(Brief Article)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- March 7, 1996
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LOS ANGELES -- In the opening day of testimony in his countersuit against TV star Roseanne and her ex-husband, Tom Arnold, New York apparel manufacturer Stanley Warner said Wednesday that back in May 1993 -- before any deals among them were signed -- he met with Roseanne in Iowa and told her that Joan Rivers sells $1 million worth of goods an hour on television.
Roseanne, he testified, then said to him, "If Joan Rivers can sell $1 million, I can do $5 million."
A little while later, Roseanne took the stand and denied that such a conversation had ever taken place.
"If I was going to say that," she said, "I would have said $50 million."
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