Robert Blake to Pay Damages

Nishtha TaposhNov 22 2005

Eight months after Robert Blake was accused of murdering his wife, a civil jury decided that the tough-guy actor was behind the slaying, and ordered him to pay Bonny Lee Bakley's children $30 million.

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The jury deliberated that the former "Baretta" star intentionally caused the death of Bakley, who was gunned down in 2001 in the actor's car outside a restaurant where the couple had just dined.

Bakley's children sued the 72-year-old actor in 2002, claiming that he should be held responsible for their mother's death and forced to pay damages.

Daughter Holly Gawron, said that they were not interested in the money coz he is already broke, but the interest lies in getting him punished.

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