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Article: NOW: TOMMY VS. THE BULL TOMMY GRIFFITHS AT FM 99 SUES EX-PARTNER HENRY ``THE BULL'' DEL TORO AND OTHERS AT 96X, TO THE TUNE OF OVER $1 MILLION, CLAIMING SLANDER.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 5, 1996
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Byline: MARC DAVIS, STAFF WRITER
For five years, class clowns Henry Del Toro and Tommy Griffiths were inseparable.
They rocked together on WNOR-FM 99. They cut up together. They did weird TV commercials together. They got suspended from their jobs together for telling listeners on April Fools' Day that Mount Trashmore was about to blow up.
Now they will share a courtroom together - on opposite sides.
Griffiths, the more sedate half of the former radio team of Tommy and The Bull, is suing his one-time broadcast partner for slander. He accuses Del Toro, now co-host of a rival morning drive-time show on WROX 96X, of suggesting to listeners that Griffiths is a ...