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Lily Allen wins damages from French football magazine
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 8 October 2010
Lily Allen has been awarded undisclosed damages from French football magazine So Foot after its publisher, So Press, admitted to printing a fabricated interview with the singer last year, in which it was claimed she had made offensive remarks about David and Victoria Beckham and Cheryl and Ashley Cole.
Allen’s lawyer Mark Thompson told the Press Association that So Press had accepted that no interview had taken place, and had agreed to withdraw the article and pay damages as well as legal costs.
So Press’ lawyer Richard Dugdale added that the company 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”.
