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Unbelievable story of how we use and abuse Celebrities (G. Harrison this time)

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Trauma-san:
Look how we treat people once they become celebrities.  They're no longer human to us, and in our greed to love them, we totally hurt them.  


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NEW YORK  — A doctor accused of coercing ailing ex-Beatle George Harrison (search) into signing a guitar offered on Wednesday to donate the instrument to charity.
 
A lawyer for Harrison's relatives rejected Dr. Gilbert Lederman's (search) offer as "spin" and said they would not drop a lawsuit against the Staten Island cancer specialist, who treated Harrison.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Lederman of holding Harrison's hand and forcing him to sign the physician's son's guitar over the weakened musician's protestations.

The ex-Beatle died in November 2001, about two weeks after the signing. He was 58.

Lederman's attorney, Wayne Roth, responded in an e-mailed statement Wednesday that: "Dr. Lederman developed a close personal relationship with Mr. Harrison, who freely autographed his son's guitar."

Lederman would like to donate the guitar, which has been valued at less than $10,000, to a charity agreed upon by the doctor and Harrison's estate, Roth wrote.

An attorney for the musician's estate said it was "a ludicrous attempt to put a positive spin on what Dr. Lederman did."

"The Harrison family does not want this object that was obtained in such a cruel and abusive manner to be traded, sold and displayed in the future," Harrison attorney Paul LiCalsi said.



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that's fucking SICKENING that a doctor would treat a dying man like this.  I know you're thinking "what's the big deal, he didn't hurt him" but I think he did hurt him.  A man, for one, who lived his life celebrating existentialism and rejecting material things, is dying on your watch, and you have the audacity to practically force one of his dying moments to be you stealing an autograph from him, when he had more important things to worry about.  How about treating the guy like a fucking human being for pete's sake.  It's even worse that it was George Harrison he did it to, this was one of the sweetest people, he had an amazing heart and yet gets treated like a fucking mannequin even on his death bed.  His entire life to this doctor was worth a fucking quarter ounce of ink.  

Trauma-san:
They settled this yesterday.  The doctor agreed to destroy the guitar, and the Harrison family agreed to give the doctor's son a new guitar.  

7even:
anytime a celeb does something "wrong", it's a big scandal and ppl hate on him and shit... like if someone would care if it was some buster next door who flirted wit another woman during marriage or somethin.

bez:
Biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard.  Its a discrace that the doctor has to destory the guitar with the signature on.  Basically if George didnt want him to have the signature then he wouldent of done it.

Trauma-san:
Lol, O.K, that's a little bit of a logic jump.  

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