Chessie Moore was the first one to come to mind since she supposedly did a whole ark worth of creatures great and small. Might not have been her, though. A brief mention of the case here:

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Ford says he was served with three lawsuits in four years. One was dropped, another one was dismissed but one libel suit, brought by an actress who said Ford wrongly identified her as participating in a video, was settled out of court last year for $150,000. Ford says he wanted to fight the suit 'to the bitter end,' but abided to the recommandation of his insurance carrier - Lloyd's of London, through the National Writers Union - and made the deal (which also stipulated that he never write about the actress again).

The Writers Union later dropped him, Ford says. (Doeren Mayhew Risk Management's Tom Welbourn, the Media Perils Program representative for the NWU, declined to discuss the case 'as a matter of confidentiality.') 'They probably spent $50-100,000 on my defense, and I understand how bad this must have been for them, but I needed to recover legal costs I had engaged,' says Ford, who ended up suing the NWU in a complicated case. The parties settled out of court.


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