Legal Opinion
Randolph L. Cook v. Oprah Winfrey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 8, 1998No. 97-3403PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
Randolph Cook had a story to tell, and he thought the segment of the press commonly known as supermarket tabloids might be interested in paying him for the rights to that story. For all this Court knows, he may have been right. The story involved a national celebrity, Oprah Winfrey, whose name is far from unfamiliar among readers of the tabloids. What is more, the story was about Winfrey’s alleged use of cocaine while involved in a romantic relationship with Cook in 1985. Cook’s story thus possessed in abundance the sensational character associated with the tabloid…
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