Casey Anthony Agrees to Pay $25,000 in Bankruptcy Agreement Over Life Story Rights
Casey Anthony has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a dispute in her bankruptcy case pertaining to the rights to sell her life story, documents show.
The parties involved asked a judge to order bankruptcy trustee Stephen Meininger to "compromise a controversy between the Estate and the Debtor relating to intellectual property rights."
The order would also pertain to "the right of publicity and commercialization of the Debtor's life story," which could have monetary value in the future.
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Meininger had stated that Anthony had a right to commercialize her story, which would became property of the bankruptcy estate when she filed for it.
Lawyers for Anthony, however, "adamantly opposed" the concept that her story is property that can be commercialized and that the settlement reflected an accurate monetary value that can be demanded from Anthony.
At the beginning of March Anthony filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and testified that she had received financial gifts among other things from supporters. However, she did not identify who those supporters were, and also declined to inform the court about who is supporting her on a day-to-day basis. She did, however, explain that she currently does not have to pay any rent or utility bills thanks to "friends."
Although she was acquitted on those more serious charges, she was convicted on a number of counts of lying when she made various claims following her daughter's disappearance in 2008.
Anthony was convicted of lying to detectives when she claimed she had left Caylee on or about June 9, 2008 with a nanny named "Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez" in an Orlando apartment. That lie has led Gonzalez to sue Anthony, claiming that her lie significantly damaged her name and reputation.
Anthony was also found to have lied about claiming she was employed at Universal Studios, as well as claiming she had told employees at the company that her daughter was missing and that she had even spoken to Caylee on the phone. Anthony's daughter's body was eventually found dumped in the woods at a location near her family home.
