Golf champion Tiger WoodS' wife has been awarded "substantial" damages by an
Irish magazine, after it printed fake nude photos of the Swedish model in the
publication last year (06).
Elin Nordegren filed a libel suit against The Dubliner magazine in November
2006 over the images printed in November 2006 of a naked woman - wrongly
identified as the blonde beauty - under the headline, 'Ryder Cup Filth For
Dublin?'.
Nordegren, who received a formal apology from The Dubliner magazine, refused
to reveal the exact amount of the financial settlement - but did say the cash
would be donated to cancer support charities in honour of British golfer Darren
Clarke's late wife, Heather, who died of the disease in August 2006.
In a statement released on Friday (07Dec07), she says, "The false and deeply
offensive article in The Dubliner magazine, with the accompanying photograph of
another woman wrongly claimed to be me, caused great personal distress to me
and my family."
And she admits the magazine's publisher, Trevor White, had apologised
unreservedly for the article in question.
White is quoted as telling Nordegren, "The story was cheap, tasteless and
deliberately offensive. The article was accompanied by a nude photograph of a
woman falsely identified as being Elin Woods and the article falsely stated
other such photographs were to be found on Internet porn sites.
"There are no such photographs of Ms. Nordegren Woods on Internet sites or
elsewhere. Ms. Nordegren Woods has never posed, or been photographed, nude."
(MT/WNWR)
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