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Conrad Black, the ousted chairman of Hollinger International Inc., has sued Hollinger Chief Executive Gordon Paris, adviser Richard Breeden and four board members for $645 million, claiming they defamed him.
The suit, filed in the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, also names former Illinois Gov. James Thompson, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Burt, former U.S. Ambassador to Britain Raymond Seitz and Toronto banker Graham Savage as defendants.
Black, who is trying to sell his controlling stake in Hollinger International over the objections of board members, said in the suit that Paris and the others engaged in a “conspiracy” to gain control of the company, which publishes the Chicago Sun-Times and other papers.
