Source: ESPN
“A Florida jury on Monday awarded Jack Nicklaus $50 million in his defamation lawsuit against Nicklaus Companies, which is owned by billionaire banker Howard Milstein. Nicklaus, 85, filed the lawsuit in response to statements that Milstein and other Nicklaus Companies officials made in a previous lawsuit in a New York court. In the defamation lawsuit, Nicklaus claimed the defendants suggested that he had considered a $750 million deal to become the face of the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf League and disseminated those false claims to media outlets. … Nicklaus claimed the defendants also alleged he wasn’t mentally fit to manage his business affairs and was suffering from dementia. … the jury ruled that Nicklaus Companies actively participated in the false publishing of facts that damaged the 18-time major champion’s reputation and exposed him to ‘ridicule, hatred, mistrust, distrust or contempt.'” (10/21/25)
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/46665505/jack-nicklaus-awarded-50-million-defamation-lawsuit