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7 Answer questions 1-10 by referring to the magazine article about stars.
Which paragraph mentions
that a star received an unknown sum as a compensation 1 ...
a successful method of struggle with a tabloid 2 …
a famous person who was “the pioneer” in the war with tabs 3 …
a suit which result is still obscure 4 …
concrete sum of money 5 …
a man 6 …
star’s pet 7…
celebrities having problems with alcohol 8 …
extremely annoying paparazzi 9 …
the case lasted several years 10 …
STARS WHO SUE THE TABLOIDS
A war is raging between Hollywood heavies and the gossip rags that dish
the dirt on them. Here, the most salacious stories celebrities have gone to
court over.
By Manny Howard
A
SUE-THE TABLOIDS TRENDSETTER
Carol Burnett vs. The National Enquirer, 1976
THE BATTLE: Burnett was the first celeb to wage a no-holds-barred battle
against tabloid. The actress/comedian – a spokesperson for alcohol awareness
and the daughter of two alcoholics – sued The National Enquirer for $ 1,6 million
after it implied that she was drunk in public.
THE OUTCOME: In 1981 (five years later), a Los Angeles jury awarded Burnett
the money. But then came five more years of appeals. Eventually, the case with
the supermarket tabloid was settled for a significantly smaller sum: $ 200,000,
which Burnett donated to journalism programs at the University of California at
Berkeley and the University of Hawaii.
B
A HAIRY SITUATION
Daryl Hannah vs. The Mirror, 2001
THE BATTLE: Actress Daryl Hannah sued Britain’s The Mirror for running a story
entitled “Jittery Daryl Goes Walkies. The article reported that Hannah had
unaccountably flown to L.A. when she should have been attending last-minute
rehearsals for the play The seven Year Itch and that “the play’s producers
became “panicked” at her absence.” The story went on to say that when asked by
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