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- MILESTONES, Page 53
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- 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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