Sean Connery settles suit with golf club
<center><img align="center" border="0" height="212" id="621669" md5="" sourcedescription="编辑提供的本地文件" sourcename="本地文件" src="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2007-11/05/../../images/attachement/jpg/site1/20071105/000d60aa06df0898cbdb29.jpg" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 0px solid" title="" width="306"/></center><center>Actor Sean Connery speaks> </p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">His name is Connery. Sean Connery. And it's a name no longer associated with the Sherwood Country Club.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">The movies' original James Bond settled his lawsuit against the club for an undisclosed sum, according to papers filed in Superior Court>The settlement put an end to a hearing scheduled for next week at which Connery and his golfing buddies Craig T. Nelson and Joe Pesci were expected to testify.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">"Courts usually like settlements, but when we called to tell them about this settlement, they said Connery is>A message left for country club officials Friday night was not immediately returned.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">Connery sued in May 2006, charging the club with failing to pay him the equity his membership earned in promoting related real estate deals.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">According to the suit, Connery bought a membership in the club for $35,000 in 1990 with the understanding that the club would use his name to promote the sale of luxury properties surrounding its golf course and that he could retrieve the equity at 80 percent after three years.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px">Connery left the club in 2004.</p>