News on Chris Benoit

Court won't hear Hustler's appeal

2010-03-01T07:45:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Supreme Court says lawsuit can go ahead against Hustler over nude Nancy Benoit photos</div><div><p>The Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against Hustler Magazine over decades-old nude photographs of a woman that were published after she was killed by her husband, wrestler Hustler magazine illegally published nude photos of WWE wrestler Benoit's dead wife</div><div><p>A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hustler Magazine didn't have the right to publish decades-old nude photographs of the wife of wrestler Chris Benoit, who killed the woman and his y...

Wrestler Benoit's doctor gets 10 years in prison

2010-02-27T11:35:03Z

<div><p>The personal doctor to a professional wrestler who killed himself, his wife and their 7-year-old son was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for illegally prescribing painkillers and other drugs to patients.</p><p>Dr. Phil Astin, 54, had pleaded guilty Jan. 29 to a 175-count federal indictment that accused him of writing illegal prescriptions to known drug abusers, some of them...

Late wrestler's doctor pleads guilty in drug case

2010-03-02T15:11:00Z

<div id="subtitle">Late wrestler Chris Benoit's Ga. doctor pleads guilty to overprescribing powerful drugs</div><div><p>The personal doctor to a professional wrestler who killed himself, his wife and their 7-year-old son in 2007 pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally distributing prescription drugs to patients, one of whom died.</p><p>