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MOUSEKETEER FIANCE WON'T GET CHEESE.

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Associated Press (AP)

Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world.
 

Jurors said no dough to former Mouseketeer mouse´ke`teer`   

n. 1. One of a group of children appearing on the television program The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950's.
 Darlene Gillespie's fiance, who sued the city for $90,000 after tripping and falling on a pier.

Gillespie, an original cast member on the ``Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse

Famous character of Walt Disney's animated cartoons. He was introduced in Steamboat Willie (1928), the first animated cartoon with sound. Mickey was created by Disney, who also provided his high-pitched voice, and was usually drawn by the studio's head animator,
 Club'' in the 1950s, testified during the trial that fiance Jerry Fraschilla can't jog or sit for long periods and needs pain medication because of the March 1997 incident on the Ventura Pier.

Attorneys for the city and its contractors said Fraschilla was either a con man who faked the fall or a klutz who wasn't paying attention Noun 1. paying attention - paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences"
attentiveness, heed, regard
.

The jury said Thursday that Fraschilla, 61, doesn't deserve a dime.

Fraschilla claimed he suffered a severe back injury when he tripped over a warped board.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Nov 14, 1998
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