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PELLEGRINO v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

273 A.D.2d 155 (2000)

710 N.Y.S.2d 564

CHARLES R. PELLEGRINO, Respondent, v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC., et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided June 27, 2000.

Inasmuch as plaintiff, in his book, Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey, clearly attributed the theory of Thera-as-Atlantis to Spyridon Marinatos, defendant Ellis's statement that, "he [plaintiff] manages to imply that the idea was originated with him" was patently false and susceptible of defamatory meaning, since the average reader of the book by Ellis in which the complained of statement appeared would likely have...

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