libel

He was found to have lied in libel action he had brought against the Daily Star newspaper, in which he was awarded £500,000 in damages.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Also as a result of her piece, she was slapped with a one-million-dollar libel suit, subpoenaed as a witness in a liquor laws case against the Playboy Club, and received “obscene and threatening” calls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The painter sued him for libel in a case that proved a Pyrrhic victory, leaving the plaintiff bankrupt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

In 2014, it was reported that he had loaned David Hunt £1m, after a failed libel action against the Sunday Times left the crime boss with an £800,000 legal bill.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

“You know, I think you’re actually looking forward to Abelman’s libel suit. You actually want to see me ruined, even if you go down with me.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Until we learn to recognize its libels, we will continue to fight yesterday’s hatred while losing to today’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

Heard’s lawyers, who have filed their own countersuit against Depp, say nothing in the article libels him.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

How do I help our Christian friends understand that the Jewish people still face blood libels today?

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021

"Far from increasing a public figure’s burden in a defamation action, the common law deemed libels against public figures to be, if anything, more serious and injurious than ordinary libels," Thomas wrote.

From Fox News ● Feb. 19, 2019

In effect, he had no role whatsoever in promoting Callender’s libels against Adams.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

I will be consulting my lawyers regarding what was libeled against me on 'The View' this morning.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023

Harry claims the article was “fundamentally inaccurate” and the newspaper libeled him when it suggested he lied in his initial public statements about his case challenging the government.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are back in court to determine whether Heard libeled her ex-husband in 2018 when she wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

The founders of Alfa Bank, a major Russian financial institution, are suing Fusion GPS, claiming the firm libeled them.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2021

He at least, the lifelong servant, would not sit voiceless while his Master was libeled.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr

However the Court of Appeal dismissed Mr Fox's bid to overturn the finding that he had libelled Mr Blake and Mr Seymour.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

The dead can’t be libelled, but they can have their privacy invaded.

From Nature ● May 1, 2018

Do you think you've been libelled and want to sue?

From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2012

The council went to court in California after three councillors and an official complained they were libelled in a blog called "Mr Monkey".

From BBC ● May 30, 2011

And you libelled Buck and Bright by suggesting——" "I went to town, but not behind my bullocks.

From Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead

Judge Karen Steyn on Friday cleared Coleen Rooney of libeling Rebekah Vardy when she alleged that Vardy had leaked her private social media posts to the tabloid press.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022

The burden is still on Palin to prove that Bennet is guilty of libeling her.

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2022

And who knows who’s responsible for an unnecessary portrayal of media ethics that strains credulity and verges on libeling the fourth estate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Last month, she sued two Portuguese news outlets for allegedly libeling a New Jersey man by tying him to a far-right Portuguese political party.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021

Burr was there because Hamilton had been libeling him throughout their crisscrossing careers in public life.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In 1992, some of the subjects of “Boys of Zinc,” along with an organization representing the mothers of soldiers killed in the war, sued Alexievich for libelling the Soviet military.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015

I feel it’s happening already, that the people who say, ‘He’s lying, he’s plagiarising, he’s libelling us’, will end up having more importance than my own research, my own attempts to investigate how things work.”

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2015

Her second marriage ended in divorce within a year, and she had to settle out of court with her first husband's family over accusations that she was libelling them in her act.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012

In 2010, it paid five-figure damages to Sheryl Gascoigne for libelling her over her relationship with her former husband.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2011

He carefully excluded all libelling and personal abuse; but what would now be considered indelicate jests were not infrequent.

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Sydney George Fisher