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New York City agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle for the unjust death civil suit lodged by the fiancée and pals of Sean Bell. Sean Bell was fatally shot in his car by the police on his wedding day in 2006. The settlement was approved by a Brooklyn federal magistrate that ended the four-year legal battle with Nicole Paultre (Sean Bell’s fiancée) and two men wounded in a 50-shot barrage that claimed Sean Bell’s life.
The agreement said that Nicole Paultre, the mother of Sean Bell’s two kids, will receive $3.25 million. While Joseph Guzman will receive $3 million and Trent Benefield will receive $900,000. Guzman and Benefield were both wounded in the police gunfire outside the Club Kalua strip club on Nov. 25, 2006, just hours before Bell was to get married. The police fired on Bell’s care after they had mistakenly believed that someone inside had a gun and that Bell was trying to run them down. There was not a single weapon found in the car Bell was driving nor in the possession of Guzman or Benefield.

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Sean Bell, 23, was killed and two friends wounded outside a strip club after his bachelor party early on his wedding day in November 2006. His death outraged New York’s black community, who contended that no white suspect would have been shot so many times, if at all.
Besides the settlement reached with Bell’s relatives, the city agreed to pay $3 million and $900,000, respectively, to his two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield.
“The city regrets the loss of life in this tragic case,” Michael Cardozo, the city Law Department’s corporate counsel, said in a statement. “We hope that all parties can find some measure of closure by this settlement.”
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On the night of the shooting, the undercover officer who fired first had followed Bell and his two friends to Bell’s car believing they went to get a gun to settle a dispute at the strip club.

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NYC settles 50-bullet cop lawsuit for $7 million
(AP) – 1 hour ago
NEW YORK — The city of New York has agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from the fatal 50-bullet police shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day.
The settlement filed in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday pays $3.25 million to the estate of Sean Bell, who was killed in 2006 outside a strip club in Queens while leaving his bachelor party. As part of the settlement, the city agreed to pay $3 million to Joseph Guzman and $900,000 to Trent Benefield, both of whom were wounded in the shooting that killed their friend.
The lawsuit had accused the city of wrongful death, negligence, assault and civil rights violations.

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NYC settles 50-bullet cop lawsuit for $7 million
(AP) – 3 hours ago
NEW YORK — New York City has settled a lawsuit with the fiancee and friends of a man fatally gunned down in a 50-bullet police shooting for more than $7 million.
The settlement filed in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday pays $3.25 million to the estate of Sean Bell, $3 million to Joseph Guzman and $900,000 to Trent Benefield.
Bell was killed and Guzman and Benefield were wounded outside a strip club in 2006 while leaving a bachelor party on what would have been Bell’s wedding day.
Three police officers were acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in 2008. Federal authorities in February declined to bring civil rights charges against them.
The lawsuit accused the city of wrongful death, negligence, assault and civil rights violations.

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But the judge wasn’t convinced, and said the houses were needed as well to secure a $10 million bond.
“Either they really believe in the guy or they don’t,” Scheindlin said of the brothers.
Court papers say that Starr diverted investors’ money into risky investments — or into his own pockets — without their knowledge. In one instance, he funneled $5.75 million from the account of a 100-year-old heiress to buy a luxury five-bedroom apartment for $7.5 million without her knowledge, according to court filings.
Prosecutors allege that when clients demanded funds he didn’t have, he would use money from other investors to pay them.
One of several bank accounts linked to Starr, who’s wife is a former stripper, is held under the name “Poledance Superstar,” an indictment says. The government is seeking forfeiture of that account and several others.

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The decision by the city came after two days of intense negotiations in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. The children whom Mr. Bell had with his fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell, will receive $3.25 million, and two friends of Mr. Bell’s who were injured in the episode will also receive payments, with Joseph Guzman getting $3 million, and Trent Benefield $900,000.
The lawsuit, filed in 2007, accused the police of wrongful death, negligence, assault and civil rights violations. But it had repeatedly stalled as the state and federal governments and city police officials investigated the shooting.
The case, whose settlement ranks among the biggest in recent years involving the city’s police, set off a raw debate over the use of deadly force and prompted the city to change some of its policing procedures.
On Nov. 25, 2006, five police officers — three of whom were black and two white — fired 50 shots into the Nissan Altima that Mr. Bell was driving outside a strip club in Queens. The car struck a detective in the leg and hit a police van just before the officers began firing.

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The woman who was to marry Sean Bell before he was shot and killed by police on the morning of their wedding day is getting $3.25 million from the city to settle the family’s wrongful death claim.
 The unarmed Bell was killed in 2006 in a barrage of 50 bullets after he and several friends left a Queens strip club that was being monitored by undercover officers for alleged prostitution. Bell’s injured friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, are getting $3 million and $900,000, respectively.
Three cops were acquitted of any criminal wrongdoing, and the U.S. Justice Department found no grounds for a civil rights claim. The NYPD has not decided whether to discipline the officers. The city’s top lawyer, Michael Cardozo, said in a statement he hopes “all parties can find some measure of closure by this settlement.”

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Larson deftly captured the ephemeral nature of life in his music and lyrics and this Broadway hit is made all the moving because of his own tragic back story. His own life echoes his characters fears because he himself died young and poor and unknown on the eve of “Rent’s” premiere. He never lived to bask in the glory of his creativity, just like the bohemian hipsters he created.
That piquancy animates this lively revival, which traces the journey of Mark (Spencer Williams) the filmmaker, his best pal Roger (Brian Palac), the musician desperately trying to write one last song before
he succumbs to AIDS, and the waifish stripper Mimi (Megan Woodruff), who also suffers from the disease but is determined to have no regrets about life. They all look up to Angel (the magnetic Adam Barry), the drag queen diva with a heart of gold, and few of them can resist the thrall of the ego monster performance artist Maureen (the formidable Jacqui Elliott).

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