"So you are not the person you pretend to be, " replied Kevin Curtis, according to Jack Curtis.
Curtis' brother Jack Curtis and Madison Curtis said afterward they also were not convinced by the government's case.
The pair first met in 2006 or 2007 at a Tupelo restaurant called Barnhill's Buffet, according to Jack Curtis.
At the time, Mr. Dutschke was an insurance agent working for Jack Curtis.
Kevin Curtis was working in a call center connected to Jack Curtis's business, generating client leads, according to Jack Curtis.
The incident set off a feud between the pair that escalated over the next several years, according to court testimony and Jack Curtis.
Attempts to reach his mother and older brother, Jack Curtis Jr.
"After hearing what I heard in this courtroom, it appears to me that the reason I haven't been provided any evidence is there appears to be none, " Jack Curtis said.
On several occasions, Mr. Dutschke called venues where Mr. Curtis was scheduled to perform and spoke negatively about him to try to prompt the shows to be canceled, according to Jack Curtis.
At the lunch, Mr. Dutschke told Kevin Curtis that he couldn't publish the story because he was running for political office and couldn't afford antagonizing the hospital, according to Jack Curtis, who was at the lunch.
Through an intermediary, Mr. Dutschke had earlier promised Kevin Curtis that he would use a newsletter that he ran to publish allegations by Kevin Curtis about what he saw as a scheme by a northern Mississippi medical center to traffic in human body parts and organs, according to Jack Curtis and court testimony.
One of America's most beloved comedies, 1959's zany "Some Like It Hot, " starring Marilyn Monroe and drag-bedecked Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, used the Hotel del Coronado as a main location.
The pair worked together briefly at the Tupelo insurance agency of Mr. Curtis's older brother, Jack, and may have had a falling out over plans for Mr. Dutschke to publish in his newsletter information from Mr. Curtis about what Mr. Curtis alleges was a scheme by a northern Mississippi medical center to traffic in human body parts and organs, according to the court testimony.
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