Jesse Ventura Going After Hundreds Of Thousands More Dollars In Chris Kyle Case Not long along, Jesse Ventura won a $1.8 million lawsuit against Chris Kyle, the deceased author of American Sniper. The lawsuit originally stemmed from a chapter in the book that referred to Ventura as Scruff face. The chapter described a bar fight between Ventura and the American Sniper. Ventura made the decision to sue Kyles widow for defamation. As if that wasnt enough, hes now moving to sue HarperCollins, claiming that news reports generated by the false and defamatory story are worth an additional $150,000 in damages. It probably doesnt help matters that Kyles story is being adapted on to the big screen in the major motion picture American Sniper. What do you think, are we about to see yet another lawsuit come of that? 