Lawsuit Against Nancy Grace Dropped

CNN talk-show host Nancy Grace received an apology  from Florida lawyers who once accused the bombastic personality of "ambushing" a grieving mother as the two sides announced a settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit over the suicide of Melinda Duckett.

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting Grace and the network agreed to establish a $200,000 trust fund dedicated to finding Duckett's missing son, Trenton. Melinda Duckett's estate had sued Grace, saying she drove the young Leesburg mother to suicide in 2006.

Duckett, 21, was grilled by Grace after reporting her 2-year-old son, Trenton, missing from his bedroom Aug. 27, 2006, then killed herself with a shotgun at her grandparents' home in The Villages on Sept. 8, 2006, the day that the taped interview with Grace was to be broadcast. Leesburg police say Duckett is still the lone suspect in the boy's disappearance.

The settlement must be approved by a federal judge in Ocala.

Under terms of the agreement, which was filed jointly in federal court by lawyers for Grace and for the estate, the money in the Trenton John Duckett Irrevocable Trust will transfer immediately to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children if Trenton is not found alive by his 13th birthday. He would be 6 today.

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