All that guy needs is to spend his money on some serious Reputation Management instead of lawyers. For a fraction of the cost he can get other content pushed ahead of it, no one is building new links to that content, so it is stale. It's a little harder to do with images but it can still be done with 6 months to a year of progressive work. On multiple occasions I've buried a story that was the top result, to the second page. Instead of regular SEO where you bring one result to the top, this involved bringing 15 other results ahead of it.