Update.
'Dog's' target may sue for slander - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Posted on: Saturday, November 10, 2007
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Duane "Dog" Chapman's apology apparently isn't enough.
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Monique Shinnery is planning to sue the Hawai'i-based bounty hunter for slander, according to the National Enquirer.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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Chapman, 54, has apologized to blacks and to all Americans for repeatedly using a racial slur during a March phone call to his son, Tucker, urging him to break up with Shinnery, who is black.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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The recent Web release of the recorded conversation by the National Enquirer led the A&E television network to put Chapman's reality show indefinitely on hold.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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"I want justice," Shinnery said in a report posted yesterday on the Enquirer's Web site. "He has slandered me, stated that I have bad character and repeatedly lied about me on national television. If I'm ever going to hold my head up in public again, I need to stand up for what is right."[/SIZE][/FONT]
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Chapman, who had issued a written apology, has denied being a racist and said he used the "n-word" conversationally when talking to black acquaintances.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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In the interview Tuesday with Sean Hannity on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" show, Chapman specifically apologized to Shinnery. But she told the Enquirer that Chapman's attorney, not the TV star, called with an apology.[/SIZE][/FONT]