MORGAN FREEMAN SETTLES CRASH SUIT

Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has settled a lawsuit over a car crash last year.
The 72-year-old Million Dollar Baby and Driving Miss Daisy star was sued by Demaris Meyer, his passenger in the rollover accident in the Mississippi Delta, who claimed he had been drinking before the crash and was negligent.
Meyer, who lives in Memphis, Tennessee, sought compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages, disability and property damage.
The suit claimed Freeman had been drinking at the Bayou Bend Golf and Country Club and at a fiend's house, but did not claim he was drunk.
No charges were brought after the crash, in which Freeman broke his shoulder, arm and elbow and was helicoptered to hospital for surgery.
Rescue workers had to use the “jaws of life” to free both of them from Meyer's Nissan Maxima, which Freeman was driving.
Papers filed in federal court in Oxford, Miss, do not give details of the settlement but say: “All issues having been settled and compromised in full, and the Court having duly considered same, doth find that said motion is well taken and should be sustained.”
Shortly after the crash Freeman's business partner Bill Lucket revealed that Freeman had been separated from his second wife, Myrna Colley-Lee since the previous December and that they were divorcing.
Meyer complained she was wrongly branded “the other woman” and been accused of breaking up his marriage.
Freeman denied all her allegations and said he would prove that Meyers was “comparatively negligent.” A trial date had been set for next year.