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A flamboyant American Idol contestant who stormed the stage during Simon Cowell’s farewell episode appears to have finally gotten a reality check in federal court.
Ian Benardo, 29, who first filed a lawsuit in July claiming he’d been told to “gay it up” during three appearances on Idol, has not only obtained a lawyer, but reduced the amount he wants from Idol’s production company from $300 million to $5 million.
Benardo’s suit has been twice kicked out of federal court on technicalities.
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