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<text id=90TT0518>
<title>
Feb. 26, 1990: Business Notes:Litigation
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Feb. 26, 1990 Predator's Fall
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 55
Business Notes
LITIGATION
The Mismatch Maker
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<p> "We are going to find the one man who is absolutely right
for you," declares Helena Amram in ads touting her chain of
matchmaking services. But the high-profile doyenne of dating has
a date of her own--in New York State's Supreme Court, where
Attorney General Robert Abrams filed a suit last week against
several of Amram's firms. The accusation: her clients paid
wildly inflated prices for nightmarish nights on the town.
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<p> Aggrieved customers tell of dates who were overaged,
overweight, underemployed and sometimes already married. One
woman recalled an escort who had "dyed bright-orange hair,"
while another said she was matched with "a man who had a
criminal record." For such bottom-drawer Romeos, Amram allegedly
charged anywhere from $1,250 to $20,000, far in excess of New
York's $250 price limit on social-referral services. Amram's
response: "I never break the law." The attorney general's
lawsuit seeks restitution of any overcharges and an end to
Amram's matchmaking in New York.
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