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| Bianca Jagger in row over ring reward |
| 2008-11-04 |
| HUMAN rights activist Bianca Jagger has offered the finder of a 200,000 euros ($373,100) ring she lost in Salzburg earlier this year a compromise in the row over a reward, her lawyer said today. Jagger has so far refused to pay the man, Reinhard Ringler, the €10,000 ($18,650) reward he is entitled to under Austrian law because of the "long delay" before handing the ring in to police. In Austria, finders are entitled to five per cent of the value of the recovered object. However, "in a gesture to settle the matter", the ex-wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger had agreed to pay €9000 ($16,800) of the money to Amnesty International and the other €1000 ($1850) to Mr Ringler's daughter, Jagger's lawyer Gabriel Lansky said. From Jagger's point of view, Mr Ringler "is not entitled to a reward at all because he only handed the ring in after a long delay" - eight days after the loss was reported in the media. Mr Ringler claims he initially thought the ring was a key ring of little value and gave it to his 13-year-old daughter. Only when he heard how valuable it was did he handed it in to the police. Jagger had reported the platinum-and-aquamarine ring, which she had designed herself, was lost in the street on August 22 while she was attending the annual Salzburg music festival. Mr Ringler's lawyer Paul Kreuzberger said he had not yet been informed of Jagger's offer. "I assume, however, that Mr Ringler will not accept the offer," the lawyer said. Last month, Mr Ringler argued it was up to him to decide what to do with the reward. |
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