Sly Stone has seen more than his share of hard times since the days when Sly & The Family Stone was a fixture on Rock radio.  Now 71, Stone saw his fame and fortune evaporate and ended up close to destitute.  He maintained that he had been cheated out of a substantial amount of money by an unscrupulous manager.  It took a jury just two days of deliberations to agree with Stone and award him $5 million.  Stone claimed the manager skimmed money he was owed to support his own extravagant lifestyle.  The manager's lawyer claims Stone violated a contract put in place to revive his career in 1988.

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