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<text id=90TT1680>
<title>
June 25, 1990: Awarded:Ricci Adan
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MILESTONES, Page 53
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<p> AWARDED. To Ricci Adan, widow of Richard Adan, a
22-year-old actor stabbed to death by jailhouse author Jack
Henry Abbott in 1981: $5.6 million in damages and $2 million for
the pain Adan suffered; in New York City. Novelist Norman
Mailer, impressed with Abbott's book In the Belly of the Beast,
campaigned for his release from prison in Utah, where he had
been serving a sentence for murder. Two months later, Abbott
assaulted Adan outside an East Village restaurant. In the suit
Abbott acted as his own lawyer. He argued that he was so adept
with a knife that his victim had died instantly, feeling no
pain. Adan, he said, was "not worth a dime."
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