$900,000 Date

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TweetWoman Gets $900,000 in Damages after Date Gives Her Herpes
By CATHERINE TRAYWICK | June 7, 2012

An Oregon woman's lawsuit proved extremely costly to the man she met on eHarmony.

It may not be the most romantic way to open a first date but, as one Oregon man recently discovered, failing to fully disclose a sexually transmitted disease to a potential lover can cost you. This week a jury awarded a woman $900,000 in damages after she contracted genital herpes from a man she was dating. The couple reportedly met on the dating website eHarmony and, by the fourth date, had sex. The woman, who filed suit under a pseudonym, claimed that her date knew that he was carrying the disease but didn’t tell her until after they had consummated the relationship.

While such lawsuits aren’t exactly common, this isn’t the first time someone has cashed in after being knowingly infected by an STD-carrying lover. In 2009, a California jury awarded nearly $7 million to a 56-year-old woman who unknowingly contracted herpes from a 77-year-old man who neglected to tell her that he had lived with the disease for 25 years. In 2010, another California woman was awarded $2.5 million in damages after contracting the same disease from her cheating husband.

Over the years, several celebrities have found themselves in the hot seat. Robin Williams, Tony Bennett and Frank Vick have all been sued for allegedly infecting their former lovers with herpes. (Williams and Vick both settled out of court, while Bennett countersued.)

Moral of the story: It’s better to have kissed and tell, than to have loved and lost… in court.

[BABY1]

TweetWOW!!!!

[daved150]

Tweet900k aint worth it!! i'd HAVE to have a life!!!

[Yohimbe]

TweetCrazy stuff. Makes you not want to be in the dating world lol.

[6p6]

Tweetholly crapppppp

[colochine]

TweetLol dang!!!

I think Mike Vick has been sued a couple times for sharing his herpes with some unsuspecting slampigs.

[BigDawg]

TweetJesus, could have a truly epic Hangover type party with hot call girls for that money. How do you not tell someone you're going to be intimate with about something like that? Wonder how the founder of e-harmony would like that publicity making it to the commercials lol

[ZOOT]

TweetJust crazy...7 mill for an std..wonder if my wife would let me "date" to try and get some of that money

[jipped genes]

Tweethahaha! i dont know why i am laughing but i am. the guy is probably a asst manager at burger king making $14 an hour. she will end up with $112 a month or something like that. sucks for her.