Sharon Stone Wins Libel Suit

Sharon Stone has been paid off by a London tabloid that printed an untrue story about her leaving her kid in the car while she had dinner.

Hollywood star Sharon Stone accepted an apology and “substantial” libel damages at London’s High Court on Thursday over a newspaper story saying she left her 4-year-old son in a car while dining in a restaurant. A Daily Mail story last June said Stone had enjoyed a late night dinner date at The Ivy restaurant in central London with what it called a “mystery male companion” while her son was left sleeping in a car with her driver for more than two hours.

Stone’s solicitor Rupert Grey told the court the article said the boy was likely to be uncomfortable in the heat and traumatized by paparazzi flash photography and had included remarks critical of Stone. “The article conveyed the clear allegation that Sharon Stone had neglected her son in a shameful and selfish way,” he said.

Grey said the allegations in the article, which were repeated in a later article by the newspaper and echoed by other media in the UK and worldwide, were completely untrue. Far from leaving her son outside in the car, they had had dinner together inside the restaurant before her son flew back to the United States the following day, Grey said. Neither was there a shred of truth in the allegation that Stone was dining with a “mystery male companion”, he said.

I don’t know what’s more amazing, that such a minor story would net “substantial” damages–after all, letting a kid sleep in a car with a driver who presumably would monitor the climate for his own comfort if not the kid’s isn’t that big a deal–or that Stone has managed to get paid for something she did with her clothes on.

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