Lily Allen wins damages over Beckham & Cole story

Yahoo!7 Music October 14, 2009, 6:05 pm

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Lily Allen has won libel damages from a tabloid over false claims she launched a bitter tirade against Victoria Beckham and Cheryl Cole in a French magazine.

In May, The Sun reported that the "Smile" singer had ranted about the former Spice Girl and her husband David, as well as Girls Aloud star Cole, in an interview with French publication SoFoot.

The report stated Allen had branded David and Victoria Beckham "sickening", and called the Wannabe hitmaker a "monster".

But Allen quickly denied she had even given an interview to the football magazine, insisting the comments had been fabricated.

Last month, The Sun published an apology and retraction of the allegations, with bosses accepting the quotes were false.

On Tuesday, the star was awarded substantial, undisclosed libel damages from the newspaper's publishers, News Group Newspapers, at London's High Court.

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Tim 08:06am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
Maybe she can use the money to hire a personal trainer or a treadmill or something
The ''D'' 07:56am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
Pity us "normal ppl" can't get the same response from slandering mongrels....
fredsmith 07:23am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
who is lily allan ?... anyway, it is good to see that one of murdoch's rags is being sued again. he only produces rubbish anyway. stop buying murdoch's papers and magazines.
Wendy 07:04am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
This is mostly the only type of stories one finds in the magazines. It is how they sell their magazines at an inflated price. Silly people rush out to buy them to read the latest fabricated yarn about this one and that one.
James H 05:57am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
That will teach them should be more of it as some media outlets think they are God when they publish their bullcrap.
SKY 02:24am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
for gods sakes does it ever end i really think that most the stuff they put about celebs is a bunch of propaganda
SKY 02:24am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
for gods sakes does it ever end i really think that most the stuff they put about celebs is a bunch of propaganda
jelka 01:14am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
Great, so now all we need is to make the media accountable for all the crap they feed us about the government so the world starts to get a real picture of whats going on! There should be substantial fines for misleading statements and false reports, why not when doctors and other proffesions get fin ...
Stephen 12:53am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
jut another POP queen getting more money-death to POP i say!FUNK IS KING.
trixie 12:34am Thursday 15th October 2009 EST Report Abuse
20 years ago I knew a girl who posed as a model for a teen mag. They wrote a heap of stuff she never said. They didn't even interview her, she just modeled. Also, a 'serious" local paper exaggerated another friend's interview.