Daily Mail to pay Lady Moore 'substantial' damages over diary story (Roger Moore's wife)

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers has agreed to pay "substantial" damages to Lady Moore, the wife of Sir Roger Moore, over an article that wrongly suggested she'd had relationships with wealthy older men more than 50 years ago.

The diary piece, published in the Ephraim Hardcastle column on 8 October 2010, falsely claimed that Moore, formerly Kristina Tholstrup, had an affair with 74-year-old Taki Theodoracopulos and a 90-year-old man in 1958 on the French Riviera.

The column referred to a claim by Theodoracopulos in the Spectator magazine that the love of his life was a woman named Kiki, "a gorgeous Swede with whom he lived at the Hotel du Cap in 1958".

A lawyer acting for Moore told the high court in London on Tuesday that the reader would infer that Kiki was the wife of the former Bond actor because she was pictured alongside the column.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/18/daily-mail-lady-moore-damages

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And why is the Daily Mail still an accepted news source at DU?

[valerief]

1. Who cares about celebrity gossip anyway??? nt

[Blue_Tires]

2. It's more of a defamation story than mere celebrity gossip...

[valerief]

3. Who cares? It's another stupid sex story. Who cares and who should? nt

[supernova]

4. Who cares who shacked up with who

in 1958 in a hotel?

[Darth_Kitten]

6. She does, obviously.

:evilgrin:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. Suing is the only way to get their attention.

Hit 'em in the pocketbook.