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Martha's Messy Legal Bill
Martha Stewart's week has been full of not so good things.
Just three days after NBC nixed a second season of the ratings-challenged The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, the home-making maven has been sued by a jury consultant who claims Stewart stiffed her on a $74,000 bill from last year's trial.
The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on behalf of Julie Blackman & Associates, alleges the lifestyle guru hired Blackman to advise Stewart's attorney on selecting jurors and devising strategy in her legal defense.
According to the suit, Blackman designed jury questionnaires, organized focus groups, conducted telephone surveys and winnowed down the panel that decided Stewart's fate.
Not that it did much help: Stewart was eventually found guilty of lying about a stock sale.
But that's beside the point. Blackman says Stewart kept writing checks for services rendered until February 2004 and then abruptly stopped.
Blackman's attorney, Michael Dowd, says his client was "reluctant" to take legal action against Stewart.
"When both she and I could not get any response to the bill, we were left really with no option," he told E! Online.
Dowd added that has has been in touch with Martha's camp, but refused to divulge whether or not a settlement might be in the offing.
A spokeswoman for Stewart at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia declined to comment.
Stewart won't have too much to be thankful for when she presides over her family Thanksgiving feast next week. In the past month, she's been sued and lost her Apprentice spinoff. Things were so bad that presumed pal Donald Trump publicly blamed her for dragging down his own series' ratings. Her daily talk show, Martha, has failed to make much of a dent in the daytime ratings and is undergoing a makeover to stave off cancellation. Meanwhile, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia just posted a larger than expected quarterly loss, due largely to TV-related expenditures.
Still, Stewart isn't giving up on the small screen. She has announced plans for a new home improvement series. The show follows six women coming out of bankruptcy, rehab or welfare programs who team up with mentors to renovate a house in Norwalk, Connecticut. It's expected to debut sometime next year.
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