Lily Allen Awarded Damages Over Beckham Lawsuit
October 7th, 2010
Lily Allen has been awarded damages from the publisher of a French football magazine, after it published a fake interview in which the singer was quoted as making offensive remarks about David and Victoria Beckham.
The French magazine So Foot claimed in its May 2009 issue that Allen, 25, had also made disparaging remarks about British singer Cheryl Cole and her then-husband, Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole.
The statements were repeated in an article in tabloid The Sun later that month.
The singer’s lawyer Mark Thomson told the High Court in London that the publishers have accepted that Allen had not given any interview, agreeing “that the claimant did not make the statements attributed to her in their magazine and that, contrary to their previous understanding of the position, no interview in fact took place with the claimant.”
They agreed to apologize and also “pay the claimant damages and legal costs.”
Richard Dugdale, a lawyer representing the magazine, said it offered “sincere apologies to the claimant for the damage, as well as the upset and embarrassment caused to her by the publication of the article.”
