Est. 1998
The Daily Mirror newspaper issued the following statement today,
“Back in 1992 prior to Michael Jackson’s then World Tour, we published some photos of Michael Jackson, particularly close up photos of his nose and face. We suggested that they showed him to be hideously disfigured and scarred. He immediately issued legal proceedings against us strongly denying the allegations.
During the course of the proceedings we recently went to Los Angeles together with an eminent expert in plastic surgery to view his face close up. The inspection showed that, in fact, his face is not disfigured.
As a result our lawyers met with Mr Jackson’s lawyers and a confidential deal was thrashed out bringing an overdue end to the legal proceedings, which we are both happy with.
We also apologised for the suggestion that he was hideously disfigured or scarred. We saw for ourselves this was not the case.”
Both sides last night expressed their satisfaction that the litigation has been amicably resolved.
Kevin Bays of Davenport Lyons, the Mirror’s solicitors, said: “We are glad this matter has been resolved so amicably, it has gone on long enough and hopefully we can now put it behind us.”
Michael’s lawyer told a British High Court judge that after a six-year legal battle the litigation had been settled “amicably” on confidential terms.
He said that on June 24th 1992, a misleading photograph and article was published on the front page of the Daily Mirror newspaper.
Source: The Daily Mirror UK, Associated Press & MJWN
