Former Beatle George Harrison yesterday accepted a public apology and substantial undisclosed damages over an allegation that he enjoyed sexual favours from a young woman in return for a donation to the charity Release.
Harrison was not at the High Court in London to hear his solicitor, Norman Chapman, tell Mr Justice Morland that libel proceedings had been brought over the book, entitled All Dressed Up: the Sixties and the Counter Culture, which appeared last summer.
The publishers, Random House (UK) Ltd, and the author, Jonathon Green, expressed their apologies and agreed to pay Harrison damages and his legal costs.
Rachel Hunter, estranged wife of veteran British rock star Rod Stewart, said on Tuesday she was battling to save their eight-year marriage.
Hunter (30) said she had seen him every day since they announced their split last week, partly to see their two children, Renee (4) and Liam (6). "It is true to say that I have been seeing Rod a lot," she told the Daily Mail. "We're just working things through. I can't say what is going to happen but we are both trying our best at the moment," she told the paper, which said she was living just streets away from the Beverly Hills mansion she and the 54-year-old singer used to share.
French fashion house Givenchy and its top designer Alexander McQueen yesterday won a libel case against a London magazine that accused him of plagiarism.
They accepted substantial undisclosed damages from the entertainment guide Time Out, which had reported alleged claims by two designers that McQueen had stolen their work.
The former wife of rogue City trader Nick Leeson remarried in a secret ceremony before Christmas, it emerged yesterday.
Lisa Sims (30), married Nick Horlock on December 19th, after postponing the wedding for four months when her jailed ex-husband was diagnosed with cancer.
Leeson (31), was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in Singapore in 1995 over an £850 million scam brought down Britain's oldest merchant bank, Barings.