Magazine to shell out more money
A London judge ruled Friday that a celebrity magazine that published unauthorized wedding photos of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones must pay the bulk of the couple’s legal costs.
Judge John Lindsay ruled in April that Hello! magazine’s use of unauthorized pictures taken secretly at the actors’ November 2000 wedding was a breach of commercial confidentiality. In November, Lindsay awarded $26,000 in damages to the couple and just over $1.8 million to OK!, a rival magazine that had paid that amount for exclusive rights to the wedding photos.
On Friday, Lindsay said Hello! also must pay 75% of the costs of the first hearing and 85% of the costs of the damages hearing. The claimants estimated the total costs at $7.4 million.
From Associated Press
