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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

“In fact, the legal threat is much greater in the U.K. because the libel laws are tougher in the U.K. So there was no fear around putting it out in the U.S.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

One newspaper denounced “The Playboy of the Western World” as an “unmitigated, prolonged libel upon Irish peasant men and, worse still, upon Irish peasant girlhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The case type is described as "Media and Communication -- Part 7 Claim -- Defamation -- libel and slander".

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 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

In response, Meshi-Zahav wrote a letter saying “these libels are baseless and appear more as gossip and closing of accounts against me.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 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

Adams’s Federalists, he writes, “struck at enemies at home with laws allowing the president to deport aliens he deemed dangerous and the federal courts to prosecute libels on the federal government.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019

Jefferson regretted to inform Adams that the story was untrue; he had not compiled a collection of the libels against himself.

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

“Governor Bryant believes he has been libeled by Mississippi Today,” wrote Denton Gibbes, a Bryant spokesperson, in an email.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 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

Mackenzie was certain that Dad had libeled her after that.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory

"Scott was detained and interviewed at that time, however, due to a lack of corroboration, no charges were able to be libelled."

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2018

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

From Nature ● May 1, 2018

Do you realise you've now libelled two people in the space of five minutes?

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2017

Sally Bercow settled her case with Lord McAlpine after being found to have libelled him on Twitter.

From The Guardian ● May 26, 2013

But, Pani Nathaniel, some one must have libelled me to you.

From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Karl Emil Franzos

Claiming that she ruined his reputation and career, Depp is suing Heard for $50 million for allegedly libeling him in a 2018 op-ed she wrote that was published in the Washington Post.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022

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

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2022

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

He then boldly read those words to Congress and millions of people, defaming & libeling me.” — tweets on Sept. 28.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2019

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

J. Almon in 1765, for publishing a pamphlet libelling the court of king’s bench.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various