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While his auto insurance company paid a Gary, Indiana, couple $477,968 in damages, Nasir Farrakhan has refused to pay $350,000 in punitive damages.

Farrakhan, son of the spiritual leader of the Nation of Islam, was ordered to pay actual and punitive damages to Gladys and Charles Peterson for maliciously smashing their vehicle in 2003. He admitted liability for actual damages, as he said he fell asleep at the wheel after leaving a Chicago all-night party. He was not licensed to drive at that time, and the couple claims he crashed his Hummer SUV into their Honda two times in an apparent effort to make them move so he could pass. The Peterson’s attorney, Michael Back, said that Farrakhan’s insurance company could not pay the punitive damages the court ordered him to pay.

Farrakhan denies he should have to pay punitive damages because juries in the state can only order that kind of damage if the behavior was grossly negligent or malicious.

Authorities found a bottle of Vicodin, a prescription painkiller, and a type of glass pipe commonly used to smoke crack cocaine-though without any residue-in the vehicle, which Farrakhan said belongs to his father.

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