Re: Pitt, Jolie suing newspaper over split claim (All about celebrities)

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Re: Pitt, Jolie suing newspaper over split claim

Posted on: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:08:31 +0000 (UTC)

On Feb 8, 1:35=A0pm, edonline wrote:
> http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/news/a202108/pitt-jolie-suing-newsp...
>
> Pitt, Jolie suing newspaper over split claim
> Monday, February 8 2010, 1:43pm EST
>
> By Paul Millar,
>
> Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are not splitting up, according to a
> statement from the couple's lawyer.
>
> Reports last month claimed that Pitt and Jolie had signed a multi-
> million pound separation deal, agreeing to share financial assets and
> child custody.
>
> However, the pair have now begun legal proceedings against the News of
> the World, the newspaper which first reported the story.
>
> Keith Schilling of London attorneys Schillings told Sky News: "The
> News of the World has failed to meet our clients' reasonable demands
> for a retraction of and apology for these false and intrusive
> allegations which have now been widely republished by mainstream news
> outlets.
>
> "We have advised them to bring proceedings which they have now done."
>
> Pitt and Jolie, who have three adopted and three biological children,
> are unmarried.

Interesting. I don't know what the standards are in the UK but here in
the US, it is the burden of proof on the plaintiff to demonstrate that
the story is not true. I wonder if they'll start suing in the US too?

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