Teacher wins instant millions
For years, Russell Christoff’s picture graced kitchen cupboards and staff lunchrooms.
His was the handsome face on Taster’s Choice jars, peering assuredly into a steaming, freshly prepared cup of instant coffee.
Until relatively recently, however, the 58-year-old Antioch man didn’t even know he was on the label.
Everything changed last week, when a Los Angeles Superior Court jury in Glendale ordered Nestle USA to pay the former actor and model $15.6 million for using his photo without his permission and for profiting from it.
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