Author Patricia Cornwell Wins $51 Million Lawsuit

Patricia Cornwell
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Who said there wasn't any money in writing novels? Patricia Cornwell, who has churned out best sellers seemingly forever, recently won a lawsuit against her financial advisers. A jury awarded Cornwell fifty-one very, very large, according to a story in today's BBC.

Don't suppose that Cornwell had to take a part-time job while she litigated. As the BBC report noted, "the writer said that in 2009 she discovered her net worth was less than $13m, even though she had made an eight-figure annual income for the previous for years."