Editing Rock Hudson (section)

==Lawsuits==
Following Hudson's death, Marc Christian, Hudson's former lover, sued his estate on grounds of "intentional infliction of emotional distress".<ref>{{cite news|author=Willard Manus|title=The Cleaning Man Airs Rock Hudson's Dirty Laundry in L.A.|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/57447.html|work=Playbill|date=December 18, 2000|access-date=September 5, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184641/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/57447.html|archive-date=September 30, 2007}}</ref> Christian claimed that Hudson continued having sex with him until February 1985, more than eight months after Hudson knew that he had HIV. Although he repeatedly tested negative for HIV, Christian claimed that he suffered from "severe emotional distress" after learning from a July 25, 1985, newscast that Hudson had been diagnosed with AIDS. Christian also sued Hudson's personal secretary Mark Miller for $10&nbsp;million because Miller allegedly lied to him about Hudson's illness. In 1989, a jury awarded Christian $21.75&nbsp;million in damages, later reduced to $5.5&nbsp;million. Later, Christian defended Hudson's reputation in not telling him he was infected: "You can't dismiss a man's whole life with a single act. This thing about AIDS was totally out of character for him", he stated in an interview.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Woo|first=Elaine|date=December 5, 2009|title=Marc Christian MacGinnis dies at 56; Rock Hudson's ex-lover|url=https://www.latimes.com/search|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304074022/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/05/local/la-me-marc-christian5-2009dec05|archive-date=March 4, 2010|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1990, Hudson's live-in publicist, Tom Clark, and publicist Dick Kleiner published ''Rock Hudson, Friend of Mine''. In the book, Clark said he believed Hudson acquired HIV from blood transfusions during quintuple bypass open-heart surgery in 1981, never acknowledging that their relationship went beyond being roommates,<ref>Colker, David. "Rock Hudson: Friend Of Mine", ''Los Angeles Times'', April 29, 1990</ref> and characterized Christian as disreputable. Christian filed a $22 million libel suit against the authors and publisher, charging that he had been labelled "a criminal, a thief, an unclean person, a blackmailer, a psychotic, an extortionist, a forger, a perjurer, a liar, a whore, an arsonist and a squatter".<ref>McGraw, Carol "Rock Hudson Ex-Lover Files Libel Suit", ''Los Angeles Times'', April 5, 1990.</ref>

In 2010, Robert Park Mills, the attorney who represented the Hudson estate against Christian in court, released a book titled ''Between Rock and a Hard Place: In Defense of Rock Hudson''. In the book, Mills discusses details of the trial and also questions Christian's allegations against Hudson.<ref>{{cite book|last=Parker Mills|first=Robert |title=Between Rock and a Hard Place: In Defense of Rock Hudson: From the Ashes of Trial to the Light of Truth|year=2010|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-456-70039-3|pages=x–xi}}</ref>