{"id":8263,"date":"2014-04-29T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T02:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8263"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T02:33:35","slug":"valerie-harper-sued-by-looped-playwright-for-2-million-for-not-informing-him-she-had-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/29\/valerie-harper-sued-by-looped-playwright-for-2-million-for-not-informing-him-she-had-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Harper sued by &#8216;Looped&#8217; playwright for $2 million for not informing him she had cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8292\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/482px-Valerie_Harper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8292\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/482px-Valerie_Harper.jpg\" alt=\"Valerie Harper (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"482\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/482px-Valerie_Harper.jpg 482w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/482px-Valerie_Harper-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Valerie Harper (Wikipedia photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; The playwright of Valerie Harper&#8217;s Broadway show &#8220;Looped&#8221; is suing the actress for $2 million, claiming she didn&#8217;t disclose she had cancer until after she signed on to star in the play.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Daily News (http:\/\/nydn.us\/1k2vP27 ), Matthew Lombardo says Harper and her husband concealed her lung cancer from him until it spread to her brain.<\/p>\n<p>Harper had to pull out of last year&#8217;s national tour of the play.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says the 74-year-old former &#8220;Rhoda&#8221; star knew in 2009 she had lung cancer but &#8220;knowingly withheld the truth.&#8221; The suit was filed in Manhattan Federal Court.<\/p>\n<p>It was a counterclaim to one Harper filed demanding she be paid for the production she left for health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News says Harper couldn&#8217;t be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Information from: Daily News, http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; The playwright of Valerie Harper&#8217;s Broadway show &#8220;Looped&#8221; is suing the actress for $2 million, claiming she &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[814,2657,486,2656],"class_list":["post-8263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ny","tag-harper","tag-people","tag-valerie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}