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Letters to David
Irving on this Website

Richard
Santana
believes,
, that Mr Irving wanted to make a killing from the Lipstadt trial

Getting rich at others’ expense

Re: It’s
all about money
Sinai
tourists shakedown Hilton
chain

SINAI — let’s see — where did the people suing the hotel get the idea from?

I mean, people with bleak economic prospects using a flimsy excuse to try to steal the economic resources of others. Maybe you would care to offer
Professor Deborah Lipstadt and/or Penguin
Books Ltd the opportunity to comment
. . . or am I being overly cynical?

Richard
Santana

Our
dossier on the Lipstadt trial

David Irving comments

NOT sure what point you
are making, Richard, unless you are thinking, in
your confusion, that by suing them for libel I
was trying to enrich myself at the expense of
Lipstadt and the richest publishing firm on
earth, Penguin Books (aka Pearson
International). Lipstadt has certainly gone
around the world whining that I was suing her
for immense damages for her libels.

In fact precisely to avoid that allegation you will find that I did not ask for damages for myself; in my offer to both defendants I said I would withdraw the action if they paid a modest sum —
£500 (roughly $800) — to a charity for the limbless, in memory of my oldest daughter; and at the end of my closing address to the court in
March 2000 I stated that I would not even be asking for my legal costs.

It was a matter of principle. Penguin Books wanted to settle on these terms, but the solicitors for Lipstadt threatened them with legal action if they did not stay the course: they ended up some six million dollars
out of pocket in consequence. It should be taken as a lesson by others not to tangle with me.

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