Nancy Grace Reaches Settlement with Duckett Estate in Wrongful Death Lawsuit

And just why wouldn't a host read pre-interview notes? I do interviews everyday and I always read the person's information beforehand to have questions ready. That doesn't even compare to an interview with the mother of a missing child.

Nancy will blame her staff for not informing her. Nancy DisGrace should prepare and inform herself before she opens her big mouth on air with her "bombshell" news. Investigative journalist she's not, just a blabbering talking head spewing out accusations and wrong information. Which can be very dangerous to innocent people. I wonder if DisGrace's guest booker mislead Duckett's attorney on what the interview would consist of, that maybe it would be sympathetic or something. Because the interview would obviously be about Trenton going missing.

The truth will never be known about what happened to little Trenton, only Melinda knew what happened in my opinion. It's not my place to decide if Nancy is partially responsible for Melinda's suicide. I can say I feel Nancy's "reporting" is quite irresponsible at times. She does keep many of the missing children in the news, I do give her credit for that. She does need to work on her tactics and getting her facts straight.

Nancy Grace settles lawsuit with the estate of Melinda Duckett

By Suevon Lee
Staff writer

Last Modified: Monday, November 8, 2010 at 5:49 p.m.

CNN talk show host Nancy Grace has reached a settlement with the estate of Melinda Duckett to create a $200,000 trust dedicated to locating Duckett's missing toddler, Trenton.

The settlement, which still must be approved by a federal judge in Ocala, was outlined in a joint petition filed with the court Friday, a month before the start of a scheduled jury trial.

Duckett's adoptive parents sued Grace in a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming the television host's aggressive interview of the young mother in 2006 led the 21-year-old to take her own life the next day.

In a statement Monday, lawyers for plaintiffs Bethann and William Eubank, residents of New York, indicated the parties in the lawsuit "now agree that Nancy Grace, the producers of her program, and CNN engaged in no intentional wrongdoing in the course of dedicating a program to finding the missing toddler."

The statement went so far as to offer an apology to the network and Grace, "to the extent that any suggestion has been made that anyone deliberately caused the family distress or Melinda Duckett's suicide."

Neither the Eubanks nor their attorneys could be reached for comment Monday.

"We are pleased the lawsuit has been dismissed. The statement speaks for itself," a spokeswoman for CNN said Monday.

Pending approval of the settlement, the Eubanks have agreed to dismiss their lawsuit with prejudice, meaning they cannot bring an action on the same claim in the future.

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