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Nicole Sniffs The Sweet Smell Of “Substantial” Legal Payout

10:10AM Clem Bastow | Remember how Nicole Kidman got crazy with the legal cheez wiz and slapped Britain’s Daily Telegraph with a lawsuit after they claimed that she (a Chanel No.5 spokesmodel) was splashing on Jo Malone’s White Jasmine & Mint like so much Holy water? Well, Our Nic’s powerful team of legal superheroes won out on the day and the Tele has to cough up. Her solicitor, John Kelly, told judge Mr Justice David Eady at London’s High Court this morning that the article “falsely alleged that she had put the nose of her employer, Chanel, out of place by attending press junkets all over London with a bottle of Jo Malone, her ‘favourite perfume’, close at hand”. …He said that in addition to the apology the Telegraph had agreed to pay her “substantial undisclosed damages” and all of her legal costs. Kidman intends to donate her damages to UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women. David Price, for Telegraph, added: “Through me the defendant sincerely apologises to the claimant for the distress and embarrassment this article has caused. It accepts that the allegations are untrue and ought never to have been published.” The Tele staff were then ordered, en masse, to go and sit in the corner and have a good think about what they’d done to that nice Australian lady whose face never moves above the bridge of her nose. Nicole Kidman was later seen in the dunnies at the Ritz, wiping her bum with $100 notes. More »