It is hard to believe, but 14 years after wrestler Owen Hart died, during a live pay-per-view event, at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, as a result of a failed stunt, in which he was supposed to propel himself from the top of the arena, via a zip-line, into the ring, but ended up failing 80 feet to his death, due to the harness (that was later revealed to not be intended to hold an actual adult-sized human being, rather a child) breaking, it appears that his widow has finally ended its three-year battle over the rights to his name and image with the World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly known as World Wrestling Federation).
The lawsuit was filed in 2010, after Hart's window, Martha Hart claimed that the WWE were using "Owen Hart's name and likeness without right in dozens of commercial videos and other materials" and that they had "violated a contract (agreed upon in late 1999) restricting the use of Owen Hart's name, likeness and wrestling footage, and disregarded Martha Hart's wishes against further association of her late husband's name with WWE following his death."
The issue had to do with WWE releasing the DVD entitled "Hart & Soul: The Hart Family Anthology," in 1999, which was a documentary that detailed the life of the Hart family.
This isn't the first time Hart has taken the WWE, which is owned by WWE chief executive Vince McMahon and his wife and former CEO Linda McMahon (who ran unsuccessfully for Connecticut Senator)
"In 1999, a short time after her husband had died, Martha sued the WWE in a wrongful death suit. She was awarded $18 million, which she used to establish the Owen Hart Foundation. The charity provides educational funding and housing for students and families in need," according to christianpost.com.
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