The Perfect Defense: Sue (and Win)
Keira Knightly won nearly $6,000 in a lawsuit against The Daily Mail. The suit was to defend against the notion that Knightley, assumed anorexic, was the reason a 19 year old, who Knightly was not friends with, died of anorexia.
The paper ran a picture of a bikini-clad Knightley in January with an editorial statement that expressed a parent’s heartache, and blame towards the media - something that not only would have given themselves negative publicity (should there really be publishing warnings?), but ultimately cost them something like two employees’ monthly salaries.
If pictures like this one of Keira carried a health warning, my darling daughter might have lived.
She has long argued rumours of a possible eating disorder - she blames being naturally thin and states that she is aware of the seriousness of anorexia, since she had an aunt who’d suffered from the disease. This is supposed to be reasonable proof that she doesn’t have one?
Judge for yourself and let me know what you think - is Keira Knightley sick or in need of a slap?
She is rumoured to be considering donating the court’s award to the UK’s Beat - an ED charity.
BEAT, keira knightley, the daily mail
May 6th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Great Post Thanx.