Inglês - PROF. Ms. JAMIL JUNIOR

$ 15 MILLION COFFEE FACE

 Just when you think your bright ideas for success have ended, the extraordinary happens. This is the case for ex-model Russel Christoff, who makes up $ 15.6 million richer this morning following a legal dispute with Nestle USA. A jury decided this amount was the right amount his knowledge or permission. Christoff, 58, is now a kindergarten teacher in San Francisco and had given up on his modeling career years ago. He had minor successes, such as promotional videos and his own public TV show, but decided to call it a day and became a kid's teacher. Then he became an overnight multi-millionaire.

  He had tried to be a Nestle model in 1986 and did a photo shoot with the company's advertising agency, but nothing came of it, or so he thought. Sixteen years later, and Christoff was out food shopping when he suddenly noticed a coffee jar with his face on it. This got the alarm bells ringing and he immediately took legal action against Nestle. Christoff discovered his image had been on coffee jars throughout the world. For its part, Nestle said the photo had been used mistakenly. A company lawyer said, "The employee that pulled the photo thought they had consent to use the picture". The damages awarded to Mr. Christoff were for using his image without his permission and are 5% of the profits from Taster's Choice for the past 16 years.

                                                                                              (breakingnewsenglish)