Beasley Tries To Distance Itself From Jock Trial

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A day after a defense attorney tried to distance Naples-based Beasley Broadcast Group Inc. from liability in a lawsuit involving 96-KROCK (96.1 WRXK), the plaintiff's attorney Wednesday  used radio shock jock Joe Scott's employee documents to tie the company to the station, according to a story by Aisling Swift at naplesnews.com.

The defense has contended KROCK is owned by Beasley FM Acquisition Group, not the multimillion corporation traded on NASDAQ. Linking Scott and KROCK to the money making corporation is one of the hurdles Fort Myers attorney William Thompson Jr. must overcome to prove a lawsuit Scott's former girlfriend, Patti Davis, filed against Beasley Broadcast Group and its affiliates in 2005.

The trial comes 4½ years after 46-year-old Scott's death from internal bleeding, complications of years of drug and alcohol abuse.

Under the name "Jane Doe," Davis sued, alleging she endured daily diatribes in May 2005 by Scott, who cursed at her, called her a prostitute, thief, and other names that harmed her reputation and real estate career. She contends the station refused to stop him after she repeatedly complained and alerted them he was still abusing drugs and not ready to return to the air after a two-week stint in rehab. Station employees had taken him to The Willough rehab center in Naples after he didn't show up to work and was found surrounded by cocaine and alcohol in his Cape Coral home.

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