Jack Nicklaus was awarded $50 million by a Palm Beach County jury on Monday in a defamation lawsuit against his former company and business partners, according to a news report.

The 85-year-old golf icon and North Palm Beach resident filed the lawsuit in Palm Beach County court in 2023 against Nicklaus Companies LLC, the company’s executive chairman and billionaire banker Howard Milstein and executive vice president of Nicklaus Companies Andrew O’Brien.

The lawsuit centered on statements that were written in another lawsuit filed in New York, made by the company “at Mr. Milstein’s direction,” according to the complaint in Nicklaus’s Palm Beach County case. The New York lawsuit included false claims that Nicklaus wanted to accept a leadership role with the controversial Saudi golf league

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