$11 Million Defamation Judgment Against Gossip Blog

Last week, a federal judge ordered a gossip blog to pay a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader $11 million for libel and defamation:  

U.S. District Court Judge William O. Bertelsman on Wednesday ordered Los Angeles-based Dirty World Entertainment Recordings — which the complaint and judgment said operates TheDirt.com — to pay $1 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages for failing to respond to the suit.

Politico, however, reports that the plaintiff may have sued the wrong holding company for the blog. 

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Thanks to Lisa Smith-Butler for the alert.

- SBS