The British tabloid Mail on Sunday agreed to settle payment after Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s wife, will win the court battle for violation of her privacy, according to a court document released Wednesday.
Associated Newspapers, the newspaper’s editor, agreed to pay the U.S. ex-actress a 1 pound compensation for misuse of private information, as well as an undisclosed amount for infringing your copyright.
According to a spokesperson for Markle, the sum is “significant” and will be intended for charitable associations.
Associated will also have to pay before 7 January the court costs, which amount to 300,000 pounds sterling (about 407,000 dollarss), according to a court document delivered by the editor’s lawyers to journalists.
According to the BBC, that document formally confirms that the newspaper’s editor, who planned to appeal to the Supreme Court, accept your defeat.
The 40-year-old former actress took legal action against Associated for publish excerpts from a letter sent to his father Thomas Markle.
In this letter published in 2018, shortly after her wedding to Prince Harry, the Duchess asked her father to stop lying in the media about their broken relationship.
On December 2, the British courts agreed with Meghan Markle by rejecting the appeal presented by the British tabloid newspaper, which had been sentenced 10 months earlier for publishing the letter.
Meghan y Harry they left their royal duties in March of last year and currently live in California. They have taken a series of legal actions against the media alleging invasion of privacy.
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