Sharon Osbourne Wins Sun Payout Over OZZY Health Allegations
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Sharon Osbourne has accepted substantial libel damages and an apology from News International at the high court today after a story appeared in the Sun claiming she was driving husband
OZZY OSBOURNE
to destruction.
The Sun article in question appeared on 1 October 2007 under the heading "I fear poor Ozzy will die on the stage".
Osbourne's solicitor, John Kelly, told Justice David Eady that the article alleged that former X Factor judge, who has been married to Ozzy for 26 years, was putting her husband's life at risk by forcing him to perform a series of live shows when he was not well enough, and that her motivation for doing so was to fund her "exorbitant spending".
"The article wrongly alleged that the claimant was 'driving her frail husband
Ozzy Osbourne to destruction', was working him 'so hard she will kill him' and that 'Sharon will keep Ozzy on the road until, like Tommy Cooper, he dies on stage'," Kelly told the high court.
"These allegations are entirely without foundation and were obviously extremely distressing, hurtful and damaging for the claimant. The claimant's distress was increased as a result of the claims in the article being made by the claimant's estranged brother David Arden, and tagged with the words 'Chilling warning from brother of X Factor Sharon'."
The photograph published alongside the article, captioned "Pushed too far – Ozzy looking like a man who's had enough", Kelly said, was actually taken in 2003 as part of a series of photographs of Ozzy completing a four-mile jog round the UCLA athletics track in Los Angeles with a personal trainer.
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