Rod Stewart was ordered to pay US$ 2 million to Harrah´s for a cancelled show

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The rock star will appeal

(US).- The seven-member federal jury found unanimously that rock star Rod Stewart should not have kept an advance he was paid for the New Year’s weekend show at the Rio Hotel Casino which he said he was unable to perform due to throat surgery several months earlier.



Stewart, 60, was not in US District Court when the veredict was reached. One of his lawyers, Kerry Garvis Wright, said the rock star will appeal. On the other hand, Steve Morris, a lawyer for the Rio Hotel Casino and its parent company, Harrah’s Entertainment, said he was "delighted and relieved" by the verdict.

Jury foreman Stevan Jorgensen, 56, said the jury believed the argument boiled down to a misunderstanding of the contract between the rock star and the casino. "We felt it was only fair," he said, "that if Mr. Stewart didn’t perform the concert that he should give the money back."

Juror Kent Brooks, 62, said jurors felt Stewart would not have been able to perform "up to his standards" following his surgery in May 2000. "The best conclusion that was fair to both parties was that it was a misunderstanding of the contract."

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