Kate Winslet’s Libel Lawsuit

November 26, 2009 stuva17

When you think of Kate Winslet what is the first thing that comes to mind… for me that would be her role in Titanic. But she has starred in many more movies; her most recent roles which have given her many awards and nominations were in the movies Revolutionary Road (2008) and The Reader (2008).

On November 3, 2009 Kate Winslet won a libel lawsuit receiving $40,000 from the British magazine: Daily Mail. A libel lawsuit is defined as anything: that is in writing, print, signs, or pictures and damages a person’s reputation. So the reason that Kate was filing this type of lawsuit against the Daily Mail was because they accused her of lying about her work out regime.

But the Daily Mail doesn’t just say a few words and that is the end of it, they are thoroughly going at Kate Winslet. They have quotes from earlier years and complain about how she has switched from being “their Kate” from England to a starlet in Hollywood.

(Quoted from People Magazine) “I strongly believe that women should be encouraged to accept themselves as they are, so to suggest that I was lying was an unacceptable accusation of hypocrisy,” the 33-year-old mother of two said in a statement. In January, Winslet told reporters she was going “easy” on herself and not exercising at all during the hectic awards season.

After Kate Winslet went to High Court in London, the Daily Mail decided that they would apologize for what they printed earlier in the year and that they would pay for the damage that they caused and all of her legal costs.

Winslet was quoted saying: “I am delighted that the Mail have apologized for making false allegations about me,”

I agree that Kate had a strong argument for starting this lawsuit. Being accused of lying about something that you feel very strongly about is wrong, especially when they are people that have so much power in the media. And this one article could have started crazy rumors about Kate Winslet and could have caused a lot of damage to her career. Because this started overseas, it might have taken longer to reach the United States but it would have gotten here eventually, and the media would have had a field day talking about this Oscar winning starlet lying about how she has obtained the body she has after having two kids! If something like that would have happened I am not sure how it would have affected her creditability.

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