million in damages. Involvement with Fabio Peter F. Paul was the manager of Italian model, actor, and author Fabio Lanzoni, helping him achieve international recognition. When they began working together, Paul "suggested building Fabio's career around [Fabio's] philosophy," packaging products that incorporate his romantic approach to health and fitness. In 1993, Lanzoni was working 17 to 18 hours a day, claiming he could count the number of days he had off that year. In 1993, he published Fabio's biography, Fabio. It contains over 100 photographs, presumably of Fabio. Lanzoni dedicated his 1995 book Fabio Fitness primarily to Paul. He describes Paul as his "business partner, manager, and most of all [his] friend" who has "dedicated his indefatigable energy and creativity to working with me and creating what has come to be known as 'The Fabio Phenomenon.'" Involvement with Stan Lee Founding of Stan Lee Media, fraud, and flight In 1998, Paul co-founded Stan Lee Media with comic book legend Stan Lee and took the company public via a reverse-merger into a trading shell in August 1999. In February 2000, in the midst of the Internet stock market boom, Stan Lee Media built a 165-person studio. However, at the end of the year, Stan Lee Media ran out of money. Paul alleged in a later civil fraud and coercion suit against Bill and Hillary Clinton that the company failed because of the intervention of Bill Clinton, who he claims persuaded a large investor not to further support the company. In the aftermath of the company's collapse, it was alleged that Paul and a corporate officer named Stephan Gordon had illegally tried to support the stock's price by using nominee accounts to buy 1.6 million shares of the company's stock, attempting to pay for the stock with bad checks. In February 2001, Stan Lee Media filed for bankruptcy, and Peter Paul fled to São Paulo, Brazil. There he managed 112 Interactive do Brazil, a seller of English language acquisition software, and fought extradition. Stan Lee-related litigation Paul has promoted lawsuits against Marvel Entertainment claiming that Stan Lee Media owns the rights to all the Marvel characters created by Stan Lee. These would include Spider-Man and The X-Men. Paul and his associates further claim that Stan Lee Media was never properly dissolved as a corporation, and that they control the company. Though courts have found that some Stan Lee Media characters were improperly