An aide to former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was so taken by Lance Armstrong’s first memoir of battling back from cancer to win the Tour de France multiple times that he immediately read it “cover to cover” and recommended it to several friends.
Now he wants his money back - and then some.
Rob Stutzman and several others who bought Armstrong’s and have filed a lawsuit in Sacramento federal court. It alleges Armstrong that duped them into believing the books were inspirational true accounts of the cyclist’s accomplishments done without performance-enhancing drugs.
The lawsuit accuses Armstrong and the books’ publishers of committing fraud, false advertising and other wrongdoing for publishing the cyclist’s vehement denials that he wasn’t a cheat.
Armstrong admitted to cheating throughout his career in a televised interview last week. His lawyer Tim Herman didn’t immediately respond to inquiries for comment on Thursday.
The lawsuit seeks class-action status on behalf of all readers who felt misled by Armstrong’s denials of drug use in , published in 2000, and , published three years later.
