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A Portland pimp who filed a $100 million lawsuit against Nike, claiming the shoe manufacturer is partially to blame for a savage beating that helped net the pimp a 100-year prison sentence.

In a three-page lawsuit handwritten from prison, Sirgiorgio Clardy argues that Nike should have affixed a label in his Jordan shoes warning consumers that they could be used as a "dangerous weapon." Clardy was wearing a pair when he repeatedly stomped the face of a john who was trying to leave a Portland hotel without paying Clardy's prostitute in June 2012.

In July 2013, Clardy was convicted of second-degree assault and robbery of the john, who suffered vision problems, required stitches and underwent plastic surgery on his nose. Clardy also was found guilty of robbing the john and beating the 18-year-old woman he forced to work as his prostitute. She was injured so badly that she bled from her ears.