J.K. Rowling Wins Court Battle Over Daily Mail's False Claims
Source: Time
J.K. Rowling has been “fully vindicated and her reputation restored” after the British tabloid Daily Mail apologized to the author in London’s high court.
Rowling pursued a successful libel case against the Mail, saying they gave a “false picture” of a September 2013 article she had written for Gingerbread, a U.K. charity that provides support to single parents. In her article, Rowling had described her experience as a single mother in Edinburgh when writing the first Harry Potter book.
The Mail published a story ten days later alleging that Rowling’s “sob story” contained false claims about her time as a single mother and being stigmatized by churchgoers in the 1990s.
... A judge was told that the Mail‘s publisher had now accepted the allegations were “completely false and indefensible”, published an apology and agreed to pay Rowling substantial damages.
Read more: http://time.com/3893777/jk-rowling-dail-mail-court/
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