Will Smith has won his slander case against a British media group that falsely claimed the actor said Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was a good person.
Celebrity news and photo service World Entertainment News Ltd., aka WENN, published an article in December about a Smith interview that first appeared in a Scottish newspaper but was then picked up by tabloids and everyone else. We waited for Smith to comment before we wrote about this story here.
Smith’s lawyer, Rachel Atkins, stating the case said:
“The defendant published an article about the claimant entitled Smith: Hitler was a Good Person. The article alleged that the claimant had declared in an interview that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was a good person.”
“It wholly misrepresents the claimant’s actual words, given in an interview to the Daily Record, a Scottish newspaper and Web site,” Atkins said.
After Smith released a public statement expressing his outrage at the erroneously quoted statements that had been written about him, WENN apologized for the piece. But Smith’s lawyers feeling the damage had already been done to Smith’s reputation, said that was not enough and took them to court. WENN now has agreed to pay unspecified damages and now has made a formal apology at London’s high court.
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Will Smith often speaks his mine about many subjects, but I was very surprise by some quotes alleged to have come from him regarding Adolf Hitler reported by a in a Scottish newspaper. Now Will Smith has responded to this article and he is obviously angry at the reporter who he says misuesd his power of the press.
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