🌱 Massage $ Offers Rejected + OBJ's Shoe Room + Spectacle Of Planets: Cleveland Daily

With no Cleveland Browns pick in the NFL draft's first round, we streamed the movie "Draft Day" Thursday night so we could feel the familiar sensations of misplaced optimism, unfulfilled hope and haplessness that typically arise on draft night for Browns fans.

Baker Mayfield held hostage, Day 42. 🫠 As of last night, he was still a Brown.

In other news that might make you queasy, we've got a little more insight into Deshaun Watson's legal maneuverings thanks to the Fox 8 I-Team.

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Deshaun Watson Tried To Settle Women's Lawsuits Twice

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson twice last year tried to settle the bevy of lawsuits brought against him by women claiming they were molested during massages, reports the Fox 8 I-Team, but disagreements over non-disclosure terms scuttled the deals.

• Rejected settlements: At one time, Watson's camp supposedly offered each woman $45,000 to settle. In another round of negotiations, reports the I-Team, the women were offered $100,000 apiece. 🤢
• Basic facts: Watson faces 22 civil lawsuits. Two Texas grand juries declined to indict him.
• Plaintiffs' lawyer: “Deshaun Watson wanted a full, not only non-disclosure about the settlement, but you can’t say anything bad about us. You can’t say what happened to you. You can’t say anything,” claimed attorney Tony Buzbee.
• Defendant's lawyer: “The thing that it broke down on was we wanted it done so the public would be able to make their own judgement,” Watson's attorney Rusty Hardin told the I-Team.

Learn more from Fox 8 Cleveland

ICYMI, Here Is OBJ's Shoe Room 👟

The Columbia Station home of former Cleveland Browns star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. — featured in Thursday's Cleveland Daily — is on the market for $3.3 million. Apparently no Daily readers snapped up the property Thursday.

We forgot to show you the shoe room. The 10,300-square-foot home features this massive shoe room, an outdoor swimming pool with waterfalls and slide and an at-home barber shop.

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• Here's when Greater Cleveland can watch the stellar spectacle of planets aligning: Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mars will parade across the sky (Patch)
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• Semi-trucks crash, causing both to become engulfed in flames in Elyria Township (cleveland.com)
• Lakewood residents hope for answers about problematic Warren Road curve (Cleveland 19 News)
• Check out the fleet of tall ships coming to Cleveland for this year's festival (WKYC.com)
• Cleveland Browns reporter Mary Kay Cabot is a finalist for Bill Nunn Jr. Award (cleveland.com)
• As we observe Holocaust Remembrance Day, a concerning rise antisemitism in Ohio and beyond (WKYC.com)
• Aldi sets Broadview Heights store opening (cleveland.com)
• How development in Cleveland is building a better West Park (Cleveland 19 News)
• Victim dies after being stabbed by 2 men in the middle of a Cleveland street (Cleveland 19 News)
• Meet JFC Security, LLC: The specialized force protecting Cleveland's Jewish community (WKYC.com)
• Dayton entrepreneur back from space station; now part of Cleveland Clinic study that could aid longer trips (cleveland.com)
• Jury convicts Cleveland art appraiser in undercover sex sting (cleveland.com)

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