Evel Knievel’s Estate Owes Shelly Saltman Over $100 million

Evel Knievel, a daredevil motorcyclist, died on Friday, November 30, at the age of 69. His debts, however, did not die with him.

John Rogers, Beating Victim Goes After Knievel Estate, news.aol.com, Dec. 3, 2007, has more details on this story:

Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman.

Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 in a rage over a book Saltman had written about

With interest, the still-uncollected sum has grown to more than $100 million[.] ***

Whether Knievel’s estate has that kind of money is unclear. ***

Special thanks to April Wiuff (J.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.