A federal judge ordered singer Rod Stewart to pay $2,6 million plus interest to a Las Vegas casino for canceling an event in December 2000, US news media reported.
The jury formed by seven people decided that Stewart, 60, shouldn't have taken the advance he was paid for the New Year's weekend show at the Rio Hotel Casino, where he was unable to perform due to throat surgery several months earlier.
"We felt it was only fair," jury foreman Stevan Jorgensen said, "that if Mr. Stewart didn't perform the concert that he should give the money back."
Stewart, 60, canceled a concert in 2000 which was supposed to take place at The Rio hotel-casino owned by gambling giant, while recovering from thyroid cancer surgery, after he pocketed more than US$2 million for it.
Stewart's attorney, Kerry Garvis Wright, said his client would appeal. Stewart was not in U.S. District Court when the verdict was reached.
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