Katie Holmes Sues Star Magazine for $50 Million
10:48 am, March 1st, 2011
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Katie Holmes just filed a $50 million libel lawsuit against American Media, Inc., owner of Starmagazine, which recently ran a cover suggesting the actress uses drugs.
Holmes is furious with the tabloid and contends the story is defamatory.
Star‘s cover featured a photo of a tired-looking Holmes below the cover line, “ADDICTION NIGHTMARE – Katie DRUG SHOCKER! The real reason she can’t leave Tom.”
The story was a total bait and switch, which Gossip Cop busted when it first came out in January.
Inside the tabloid, Star wrote that Scientologists use a device called an “e-meter,” which “emits a low-level electric charge that goes to the brain” and gives its user “a temporary feeling of euphoria, followed by a crash and a craving for more,” the way opiates do.
The article NEVER actually stated Holmes uses drugs, though the actress believes the cover clearly misleads readers to believe she does.
Star has repeatedly published pieces that claim Holmes’ and Tom Cruise‘ marriage is in trouble and that she’s miserable.
Even though the accusation of Katie Holmes acclaimed drug addictions in Star magazine are defamatory, I think she will have a hard time winning the case because she is a public figure. It might be hard to prove that Star Magazine made these statements about Holmes with malice.
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