Movie producer Elie Samaha is personally on the hook for nearly $97 million to a German company that successfully sued him for improperly inflating the budgets of films it bankrolled, a federal judge in Orange County ruled.
U.S. District Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler said Samaha must pay Intertainment $77 million in actual damages awarded by a jury in June in a fraud trial, plus $4 million in punitive damages and $15.5 million in interest.
