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Stinger Facing Suit For Ex's Ferrari

Stinger Named On Suit Because She Owned Crashed Ferrari

POSTED: Thursday, March 18, 2010
UPDATED: 6:17 pm EDT March 18, 2010

Former Fox 2 broadcaster Fanchon Stinger told Local 4 last year that her convicted felon ex-boyfriend, Rayford Jackson, cost her everything, but now he may have just cost her a little more.

Stinger has been named in a personal injury lawsuit because she owned the 2006 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti that Jackson was driving when he injured a former St. Clair Shores man in 2007, according to a five-page personal injury lawsuit that was filed in an Oakland County Circuit Court.

The lawsuit states that on May 19, 2007, Jackson was driving Stinger's $250,000 Ferrari on Interstate 696 near I-75 Interchange when he "swerved in a violent manner" into the plaintiff's lane, knocking him off his 2002 Honda motorcycle.

Download: Stinger Ferrari Complaint
Watch: Ex-Anchor Stinger Named In Injury Lawsuit

Local 4 has learned that Jackson did stop at the time of the crash.

The plaintiff, David Sugg, named Stinger as a defendant because she owned the sports vehicle and she should be liable for it, according to Sugg's attorney Eric Berkley of Royal Oak.

Berkely said his client was injured in the crash and has undergone surgeries, therapy and has lost time at work.

"As a direct and proximate result of the said incident, plaintiff was caused to suffer shock as well as physical and mental pain and suffering, all of which resulted in injury and damage to his head, neck, back and body, arms, legs and/or an exacerbation of a pre-existing condition," the lawsuit stated.

The plaintiff no longer lives in Michigan, according to Berkley.

Fanchon told Local 4 that she has not received service of the case. She added that she didn’t know anything about it and she doesn't own a Ferrari.

Stinger lost her job as an anchor after an investigation into Jackson's involvement in a city hall scandal surfaced.

In June, Jackson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery for supplying former councilwoman Monica Conyers with at least $6,000 to secure her tie-breaking vote in a $1.2 billion controversial sludge disposal contract. Jackson is currently serving five years in prison in upstate New York.

Last year, Stinger told Local 4's Carmen Harlan that she did not have any involvement with Synagro, and that she never did any work for the Houston-based sludge company.

Stinger discussed how the car came to be in her name.

"The Rolls Royce and the Ferrari he bought and he said I'm having issues with my credit, I'm going to put these cars under your name, I'm going to buy them. It's just going to be for a month, but it wasn't asking. It's this is what you're going to do," Stinger said.

Stinger said she was in a relationship with Jackson for three years, and described it as one of fear and manipulation. Stinger even said she prayed daily for a way out.

“The FBI approached me long before this became public. And when they approached me, they told me that they know that I’m a victim of his manipulation and deceit and abuse,” Stinger said. “What most people would think is the worst thing in the world, the FBI showing up at their door wanting to talk to you, that was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Stinger said Jackson and the whole ordeal cost her everything.

“I was not going to let this destroy me. I was not going to let this break me. I was not going to let this situation or this person or anything that I’ve experienced destroy the essence of who Fanchon is,” she said. “Everything he threatened me with eventually happened. But then I was free.”

Stinger said she has not talked to Jackson since June 2008.

In a telephone conversation with Local 4, Stinger said she had just returned to Detroit from a mission in Haiti and said she would soon be going to Washington to testify about that mission. She declined to discuss details.

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