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Sep. 20, 2019

Hush payment suit against venture capitalist dismissed

A salacious lawsuit against a prominent venture capitalist accused of failing to make good on a $40 million hush payment over an affair with a stripper has been dismissed.

A salacious lawsuit against a prominent venture capitalist accused of failing to make good on a $40 million hush payment over an affair with a stripper has been dismissed.

The ruling ends the 3 1/2-year contractual dispute in which a woman named Amber Laurel Baptiste, who had a fling with former Sequoia Capital managing partner Michael Goguen, sued the entrepreneur, claiming he owed a remaining $30 million from an agreement to keep ...

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