what Bloodworth was asking, he refused to do any work on her.
“I thought she was trouble from the beginning,” he said. I didn’t want anything to do with her because I felt she was setting me up.”
Bloodworth claims she was sent back and forth between the radio station and the doctor’s office. Fed up with getting the run around, Bloodworth sued Boris and Infinity Broadcasting, the parent company of KLSX. She sued for the maximum small claims amount of $5,000, so she could get the nose job performed by another plastic surgeon.
Judge Pro Tem Stanley O. Epstein, a Marina Del Rey attorney who frequently hears small claims hearings in Santa Monica and Culver City, said the radio station “gave her the run around” but he ultimately ruled that Boris was solely liable for not honoring the prize, based on the rules and winner release form which Bloodworth provided as evidence.
“I abided by all the rules and they denied me my prize,” Bloodworth said. “The prize was either the nose job or the boob job. There was no dispute over that in the courtroom.”
Bloodworth guessed the reason why the radio station and the doctor’s office pushed for the breast implants was because the contest was more marketable that way.
“Then I would go back on the air and they would say, ‘oh look at that rack,’” she said. “That would be fair but that’s not what the rules said.”
Jack Silver, director of programming for KLSX 97.1, the local station that broadcasts the Conway & Steckler show, which airs Monday through Friday 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., didn’t return calls from the Daily Press.
Bloodworth said she still plans to have her nose done. She has gotten two estimates that range between $6,500 and $10,500. She plans to use the $5,000 judgment, plus some of her own money.
“I have every intention of getting the nose job I’ve wanted for 15 years,” she said.
Boris said he plans to appeal Judge Epstein’s ruling.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 18, 2002. Read the original PDF.