Which one of your childhood friendships is worth a million bucks?
That’s the amount in dispute in a legal feud between billionaire blue jeans entrepreneur Renzo Rosso and his onetime partner at the Pelican Hotel on South Beach, Michele Merlo. His 2010 lawsuit seeking money he said was owed him in a settlement over a missing $1 million has boomeranged into a counterclaim asking Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Abby Cynamon to hold Merlo in civil and criminal contempt and refer him for criminal prosecution.
