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Article: DEL TORO, STONE, WROX SETTLE GRIFFITHS' SUIT FOR $80,000, ON-AIR STATEMENT.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 11, 1997
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Byline: MARC DAVIS, STAFF WRITER
NORFOLK -- Shock-jocks Henry ``The Bull'' Del Toro and Perry Stone said it was a joke.
Rival disc jockey Tommy Griffiths - Del Toro's former radio sidekick - wasn't laughing. He sued.
Now Del Toro, Stone and their radio station have agreed to pay Griffiths $80,000 to settle a year-old defamation lawsuit.
Del Toro, Stone and their station, WROX 96X-FM, also agreed to broadcast a three-paragraph statement saying they did not really mean Griffiths was a drug addict, even though they implied it repeatedly in broadcasts in late 1995.
The statement says that Del Toro, Stone, WROX and general ...