LA - The trial date has finally arrived in a suit filed in January, 2007, by Tarlton Pauley Morton against Peter Morton, her former husband. He is the Hard Rock Cafe co-founder who once counted the likes of Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Barry Diller among his investors — and who fed the rest of the town at his Morton’s restaurant. Ms. Morton’s suit, which has been working its way through Los Angeles Superior Court’s Department 34, charges that Mr. Morton defrauded her of more than $10 million...
...Ms. Morton charged that Mr. Morton had hired private investigators to “engage in a massive course and practice of reprehensible invasions” of her privacy.
In her detailed complaint, Ms. Morton said she believed Mr. Morton and/or his agents trespassed in her home and hotel rooms, burglarized a personal assistant’s hospital room, cracked a safe, ordered a stalker to aim a recording device at her and her lawyer in a coffee shop and absconded with her pain medication... (more)
