Wednesday, 2. February 2005
Topic: STRANGE - on February 2, 2005 at 6:11:00 PM CET
Model gets millions for coffee mug shot
A California jury has ordered Nestle USA to pay nearly $16 million (8.5 million pounds) to a model whose face appeared on Taster's Choice coffee labels in 18 countries for six years without his knowledge, his lawyer says.
Model-actor Russell Christoff, 58, had no idea of his fame among the instant java set until 2002, when a woman at a store remarked on his resemblance to the smiling man on the Taster's Choice jar, Christoff's attorney, Colin Claxon, said.
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