*Leonardo DiCaprio has gotten a French court to order the magazine Oops! to print a condemnation of its story alleging that he got Rihanna pregnant and then didn’t want the baby.
The actor also received €8,000 in damages, but according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Eriq Garner, “the ruling was not based on a defamation claim per se, but rather an amalgam of defamation and privacy where the truth or falsity of the story wasn’t essential to the court’s verdict.”
Per Garner:
The judge’s opinion is only available in French at the moment, but according to a rough English translation, “the particularly intimate nature of such revelation” — DiCaprio’s supposed attitude toward a pregnant Rihanna — and the “absence of any evidence to accredit … the accuracy of the facts alleged” combined with “the interference with privacy” means that Oops! can’t defend its article as “legitimate public information.”
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