You mean this lawsuit?
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Cycling champ Lance Armstrong files suit against former assistant
By The Associated Press
(12/14/04 - AUSTIN, TX) — Six-time defending Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has sued a former personal assistant
who wants a half-million dollars and other benefits under a claimed employment contract.
In the lawsuit filed Monday in Travis County District Court, Armstrong and his personal service company, Luke David LLC, want a judge to declare the alleged pact with Mike Anderson invalid, making him an at-will employee under Texas law.
"We were forced to do this because we were threatened with a half-million-dollar lawsuit," Armstrong's agent, Bill Stapleton, told the Austin American-Statesman. "What we're trying to do is avoid the lawsuit."
Stapleton did not immediately return a telephone message from The Associated Press. The lawsuit said Anderson lives in Dripping Springs but he did not have a phone number listed in directory assistance.
Anderson, who has also demanded a signed Tour de France jersey and future endorsements from the cycling champion, claims that Armstrong sent him an e-mail in 2002 setting proposed terms of employment, according to papers filed in the lawsuit Monday.
The alleged e-mail served as a contract, said Anderson, who helped Armstrong with training and landscaping. But papers in the lawsuit stated that he could be terminated at will.
"Defendant alleges that such an e-mail exists, but does not have a copy of the e-mail, although he purportedly 'remembers it clearly,"' the lawsuit states.
After his termination in November, Anderson demanded that Armstrong and his company pay $500,000 to him and his wife, Allison Anderson, the lawsuit states.
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They said he would be sterile - three healty kids
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yes, the children were conceived by way of a sperm bank done before his cancer treatment. For all we know he is sterile today.....which is of course none of our business.
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Without any warning or attempt at reconcilliation Lance up and left her
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nope, they did reconcile for a period of time. They mutually agreed to seperate after that attempt at reconciliation failed. Do all seperated people "make you want to puke"?
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I won't decry the man's achievements in sport, suspect as they may be.
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Not suspect to anyone but those who wish to cast dispersions. Lance has NEVER failed a drug test, in spite of taking hundreds of them.
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I won't downplay what he's done for cancer reasearch - But should note he profits from this noble endeavor.
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No money from the Lance Armstrong Foundation, no money from the over $20Million generated from the Live Strong bracelets, goes into the pocket of Lance Armstrong.
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She holds on to the crutch of christianity, and Lance despises her for it.
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So anybody who doesn't embrace your chosen faith makes you "want to puke"? peculiar form of Christian love.