Jesse Ventura Wants The Supreme Court To Make Chris Kyle’s Widow Pay Him Millions
Posted By Kevin Daley On 12:06 PM 08/11/2016
Former professional wrestler turned Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura hopes to take his million-dollar fight with the family of slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ventura plans to appeal to the high court after a three-judge appellate panel overturned a verdict awarding him almost $2 million in a defamation suit.
The Kyle-Ventura spat stems from an account in Kyle’s 2012 bestselling memoir “American Sniper,” which conveys an allegedly fictitious encounter in 2006 at a California bar between Kyle and the former WWE star, styled “Scruff Face” in the text. The pair allegedly traded blows as a heated political parley devolved to fisticuffs. Ventura maintains that Kyle’s version of events is entirely fabricated, and that a fight never occurred.
“Scruff started running his mouth about the war and everything and anything he could connect to it,” Kyle wrote. “President Bush was an bleep. We were only over there [Iraq] because Bush wanted to show up his father. We were doing the wrong thing, killing men and women and children and murdering … Scruff said he hates America.” He further alleged Ventura claimed that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were a conspiracy orchestrated by the Bush administration.
Kyle’s description of events was widely syndicated in mass media. Court filings indicate the alleged encounter was discussed in interviews with the veteran sniper on talk radio and cable news.
Ventura brought a libel and unjust enrichment action against the Kyle family in 2o14, months after he was murdered by a former Marine with PTSD. He told the Star Tribune that his reputation and quality of life have declined dramatically as a result of Kyle’s allegations.
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