it seems that a mere declaration of war doesn’t rate compared to a photo of a pop star made to look like an autopsy photo. Maybe check-out aisle dolts and dullards aren’t interested in reading about how the Clintons and Obamas are degenerates, dying, and spies, and maybe they are getting bored with the adoration of Trump the Savior.
This being said:
I’ve been wondering about why the Clintons, and later the Obamas, don’t sue The National Enquirer.
I decided to try to find out who had sued the tabloid.
The two most prominent examples of celebrities who have sued the National Enquirer are probably the comedian Carol Burnett and the actress Shirley Jones. Burnett successfully sued the National Enquirer in the case Carol Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc.. for punitive damages after the tabloid ran an item falsely claiming that she got drunk at a restaurant and had an altercation with Henry Kissinger. Shirley Jones sued the Enquirer for claiming that she was an alcoholic. Her case, Calder v. Jones, went all the way to Supreme Court. The highest court in the land ruled that Shirley Jones could sue the National Enquirer for libel in the state of California, even though the Enquirer was not located in California, because the Enquirer had significant circulation in California and Jones was a California resident. After the Enquirer lost their Supreme Court case, they settled with Shirley Jones for an undisclosed sum. www.quora.com/...
- In 2014, David Bar Katz , who found actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman dead, filed a $50 million lawsuit against the National Enquirer after the paper reported that the two men were gay lovers, and that Katz witnessed Hoffman freebasing cocaine. In court records obtained by E! News, Katz’s attorney called the story “a complete fabrication.” The paper and Mr. Katz reportedly came to a settlement agreement about three weeks later. The Enquirer was forced to buy a full-page advertisement in The New York Times where they admitted they were duped by a person claiming to be Mr. Katz.
- In 2012, Natalee Holloway’s mother sued the National Enquirer saying that the tabloid published false stories to profit from her daughter’s 2005 disappearance. The lawsuit said: “Defendants purposely avoided learning the truth by, among other things, failing to attempt to interview many individuals who could confirm or deny the things stated in the headlines, articles, and statements and captured in the photographs.” In 2013, the two parties reach an undisclosed settlement agreement
- In 2011, a flight attendant for Arnold Schwarznegger sued the National Enquirer (along with Gawker and the Daily Mail) after they claimed she had a “love-child” with Schwarznegger. She says the Enquirer falsely told friends that he was the father of her son, according to Courthouse News. The case was eventually dismissed. lawnewz.com/...
The Enquirer settled a libel lawsuit with the wife of Gary Condit out of court in 2003, and lost a suit brought by actress Kate Hudson in 2006. en.wikipedia.org/...
It would appear that for some reason I can’t find any politicians who sued The National Enquirer. However, the tabloid did come up during the primaries when it alleged that Ted Cruz had affairs:
In another bizarre twist that is the 2016 Republican election, Ted Cruz is being forced to respond to a National Enquirer article that accused him of having affairs with various different mistresses. Cruz quickly fired back on his Facebook pagesaying that the attacks are “garbage” and the smears are “completely false.” He claims Donald Trump enlisted his friends at the National Enquirer to do “his bidding” and get the story published. Trump denies planting the story, saying in a statement: “And while they were right about O.J. Simpson, John Edwards, and many others, I certainly hope they are not right about Lyin’ Ted Cruz.” lawnewz.com/...
I am not thinking of a piss-ant law suit for $50 — 100 million. All it took to put Gawker out of business was a $140 suit by Hulk Hogan, which was eventually settled for a mere $31 million. That was merely for a sex video.
The Enquirer published numerous defamatory lies.
I am thinking of suing them for $950 million. For some reason that sounds like a good amount to me, just short of a cool billion.
Saturday, Jan 7, 2017 · 8:50:27 PM +00:00 · HalBrown
I think it makes sense to add this, although most of us are aware of it:
Defamation—also calumny, vilification, and traducement—is the communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of an individual person, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.[1]
Under common law, to constitute defamation, a claim must generally be false and must have been made to someone other than the person defamed.[2] Some common law jurisdictions also distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel.[3] en.wikipedia.org/…