Canadian Olympian Eric Lamaze owes nearly $800K following latest court ruling
Eric Lamaze owed the plaintiffs more than $786,000.The case lasted 15 years and Lamaze had argued he couldn’t take part because he had terminal cancer – but another judge in the same case ruled the evidence Lamaze submitted to prove he was receiving treatment wasn’t “credible or reliable.”“I’ve carried the weight of this on my shoulders,” Karina Frederiks, the daughter of the plaintiffs, said while growing emotional, minutes after the Aug. 8 ruling.Her family’s stable, Iron Horse Farm, sued Lamaze in 2010, initially claiming he sold them three horses for show jumping who couldn’t perform as promised before narrowing the case down to two horses in question.Lamaze denied any wrongdoing in his defence statement.An Ontario judge ruled in the stable’s favour, noting Lamaze failed to appear in final proceedings.The lawsuit was one of many involving the Olympic equestrian gold medallist.
Lamaze has been sued nearly 20 times in Canada and the U.S. since 2009 over claims ranging from fraud and breach of contract to hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid rent.
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