Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: TAMPA — For more than 30 years, Peter Sloan has been asking William Shatner to take a DNA test so he could prove the “Star Trek” actor is his biological father. Shatner, his attorneys and spokespersons have repeatedly rejected the appeal and the claim. 
  
 Now Sloan, who lives in Tampa, has filed a lawsuit against Shatner demanding a DNA test — as well as $170 million in damages for libel, defamation, tortious interference and slander. Sloan filed the suit on his own Friday in Hillsborough circuit court and is not represented by an attorney. 
  
 Twice during the past year, in stories about the relationship he is claiming, Sloan told the Tribune his interest was never fame or fortune but only connecting with the man he believes is his father. 
  
 Recently, though, the 59-year-old estate planner and life insurance broker changed his mind and said enough was enough. 
  
 “I have endured quite a bit over the years and always stayed above the fray in terms of going after him for anything,” Sloan told the Tribune. “There has been a pattern of behavior that makes me look like I am lying and I won’t stand for that anymore. I am tired of being called a fraud by his people and him.” 
  
 The suit cites as examples a statement to the Tribune by Shatner publicist Cherry Hepburn, who said in May, “This person has fraudulently portrayed himself as Mr. Shatner’s son for years.” 
  
 That month, the lawsuit says, Shatner’s social media director Paul Camuso posted “malicious, libelous and slanderous statements about the Plaintiff on Facebook and Twitter” including that Sloan was engaged in a “big con game for fame.” 
  
 Contacted Tuesday, Hepburn had no comment on the lawsuit. 
  
 The lawsuit also says that in January, Shatner, 85, denied Sloan was his son in appearance on “The Mike Calta Show” on 102.5 The Bone Radio in Tampa. 
  
 The suit quotes Shatner as saying then, “He’s in his sixties, isn’t he, something like that? That would have to take me back to Canada and me as a kid.” 
  
 That is actually the timeline Sloan suggests — that Shatner was in his mid-20s when he fathered him. 
  
 Sloan says both his biological mother, the late-Kathy Burt, and Shatner were up-and-coming thespians in Toronto, appearing in the Canadian version of “Howdy Doody.” 
  
 In early 1956, her heart broken by her first love, Burt invited Shatner to her apartment, Sloan says. She became pregnant but didn’t tell Shatner, giving the baby up for adoption in New York. 
  
 Sloan was adopted by photojournalist George Tilden Orick and his wife Barbara. They later divorced and his adoptive mother married John Sloan. All three adoptive parents have died. 
  
 Sloan and Burt reconnected in the early 1980s. Sloan says Burt told him then his biological father was Shatner. She also told him she finally informed Shatner in 1962 when they bumped into each other in New York. 
  
 Sloan says he met with Shatner in 1984 at the Burbank Studios in California and the actor admitted he was Sloan’s father. Sloan has no evidence of the encounter and took no photos or mementos. 
  
 A few weeks later, according to Sloan, during a phone call Shatner, said he couldn’t go public with the news he had a son out of wedlock. 
  
 Sloan said Burt told him another man she also had relations with might he his father but the timing of her pregnancy led her to believe it was Shatner. 
  
 Burt’s other biological children also have told the Tribune their mother informed them she had given birth to Shatner’s child. 
  
 Shatner did pose for a photo with Sloan and Sloan’s daughter, as did many fans, during a 2011 comics convention in Orlando 
  
 The lawsuit is seeking $30 million in compensatory damages, $90 million in punitive damages and $50 million for pain and suffering. It further asks that Shatner cease and desist from saying he is not Sloan’s biological father. 
  
 Sloan said he is aware this action means the father-son bond he has long sought won’t materialize. 
  
 “I think that book has been closed for some time,” he said. “I am just now realizing it. I don’t think I could have been more cordial over the years. All I have asked for is a DNA test and I still am asking for one.” 
  
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 @PGuzzoTBO ||||| William Shatner Sued You're My Dad ... Now Beam Me Up $170 Million! 
  
 William Shatner Sued for Paternity by DJ... Beam Me Up $170 Million! 
  
 Breaking News 
  
 A radio DJ is suing William Shatner for $170 million, claiming the actor is his father and has been denying it for years. 
  
 Peter Sloan, 59, says Shatner admitted he was his dad back in 1984 on the set of "T.J. Hooker." Sloan tells TMZ he believes his biological mother and Shatner had a fling while they were both acting on Broadway. 
  
 In his suit, Sloan says Shatner did a complete 180 later ... hanging up on him when he called the actor. He claims a rep contacted him to say Shatner denied paternity and refused to take a DNA test. 
  
 Sloan says the rep also advised him to keep the matter quiet since it could be "horrendous" for Shatner's career. Instead, he changed his name to Peter Shatner and began using it for his radio show, website and several other social media handles. 
  
 Sloan says he requested another paternity test in 2011 but got denied because, as Shatner's lawyers put it ... he's "an incredibly busy, 80-year-old man, and is not interested in spending time discussing this issue with you." 
  
 Sloan wants $50 million for pain and suffering, $90 million in punitive damages and $30 million in compensatory damages. |||||
Student:
A man who has been claiming to be the illegitimate son of William Shatner for three decades now says it's time for dear-old dad to pay up. The Tampa Tribune reports 59-year-old Florida resident Peter Sloan recently filed a lawsuit to force Shatner to stop denying his paternity, take a DNA test, and pay him $170 million in damages for defamation, libel, slander, and more. “There has been a pattern of behavior that makes me look like I am lying, and I won’t stand for that anymore," Sloan says. "I am tired of being called a fraud by his people and him.” Sloan claims his mother hooked up with Shatner in Toronto while they were starring in the Canadian version of Howdy Doody. He says he was adopted and only learned of his famous parentage when he reconnected with his birth mother in the 1980s. Sloan claims Shatner actually admitted to being his father in 1984 during a meeting on the set of TJ Hooker, TMZ reports. Shatner denies it, and Sloan has no proof the meeting ever happened. In 2011, Sloan started using the name Peter Shatner online and for a radio show he hosts, leading to allegations from Shatner's camp—which points out that "many people over the years…have claimed to be his children"—that Sloan is just after some easy fame and money, according to the New York Post. But Sloan says it's not about the money, he just wants to bond with his dad. “I am William Shatner’s son, and I just wish he would acknowledge me," he tells the Post. And lest you think Sloan's lawsuit isn't serious, he's representing himself.