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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against John Ramsey brought by a man who claimed the father of slain 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey had wrongfully accused him of the child's murder. But U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer, ruling in Denver, said the man, Stephen Miles, will still be able to pursue a part of his original lawsuit that charged that the National Enquirer newspaper had wrongfully called him a pedophile.

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez and her salsa star husband Marc Anthony launched a chain of European libel actions on Tuesday against the National Enquirer over drug scandal allegations. Belfast-based lawyer Paul Tweed, who specializes in fighting U.S. libel cases in European courts, said he had filed a lawsuit with the Belfast High Court on Tuesday and would be doing the same in other jurisdictions.

Shortly before sundown on the October day O.J. Simpson was acquitted, David Perel, senior editor of the National Enquirer, walked out of the tabloid's headquarters in Lantana, Fla., and went home for Yom Kippur. He stayed home the next day for the traditional period of reflection and atonement--his first quiet day since the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman: He spent hours lying face down on his bed thinking about a woman who would not see her children grow up.

Cameron Diaz accepted "substantial" damages from American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, on Friday for alleging that she had an affair with a married man, her lawyer said. Simon Smith, a partner with the London law firm Schillings, told London's High Court that the article alleged that Diaz had a "smooching session" with a married producer who worked on her MTV show, "Trippin'." The article was posted to the magazine's website in May 2005.

The National Enquirer agreed Tuesday to give Los Angeles police tape recordings of what editors said was actor Robert Blake accusing his future wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, of tricking him by getting pregnant. Editor Steve Coz said the LAPD requested the tapes, which include about two hours of conversations between Blake and Bakley, who was shot to death May 4 in Studio City.

Cameron Diaz accepted "substantial" damages from American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, on Friday for alleging that she had an affair with a married man, her lawyer said. Simon Smith, a partner with the London law firm Schillings, told London's High Court that the article alleged that Diaz had a "smooching session" with a married producer who worked on her MTV show, "Trippin'." The article was posted to the magazine's website in May 2005.

Elizabeth Taylor and ex-husband Larry Fortensky were ordered to pay $432,600 in legal costs to the National Enquirer for a failed court battle alleging that their reputations were damaged by an article in the tabloid. But Taylor's attorney, Neil Papiano, said he will appeal the amount of the legal costs. "The amount is excessive," Papiano said. "It's only a temporary victory." Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Fumiko Wasserman made the ruling Nov.

Christopher So, the man who led police to the gun that was used to kill the son of entertainer Bill Cosby, said Thursday that he would give a portion of a $100,000 reward to a foundation set up in the victim's memory. Receiving the check at a news conference staged by the National Enquirer, So said he had not decided how much he would give to the Ennis Williams Cosby Foundation, which was established for the benefit of special education students.

A federal judge Monday cleared the National Enquirer of an allegation that it broke racketeering laws by publishing a story that said Elizabeth Taylor's husband threatened to break a neighbor's legs. The judge, however, left intact other claims against the tabloid in a lawsuit by Taylor and her husband, Larry Fortensky. They included libel, slander, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. U.S. District Judge Ronald S. W.

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez and her salsa star husband Marc Anthony launched a chain of European libel actions on Tuesday against the National Enquirer over drug scandal allegations. Belfast-based lawyer Paul Tweed, who specializes in fighting U.S. libel cases in European courts, said he had filed a lawsuit with the Belfast High Court on Tuesday and would be doing the same in other jurisdictions.

Kate Hudson has accepted libel damages from a supermarket tabloid that claimed she was dangerously thin. The British edition of the National Enquirer has agreed to pay undisclosed damages and print an apology for an October 2005 article that claimed Hudson was "way too thin" and looked "like skin and bones," Simon Smith, a lawyer for the 27-year-old actress, said Thursday. American Media Inc., the magazine's U.S.

The National Enquirer apologized to Britney Spears in its British edition Tuesday for reporting that she was ready to divorce Kevin Federline. The articles were published June 5 and June 12 under the headlines, "Britney Marriage Is Over!" and "Britney and Kevin: And Now Their Divorce!" Both stories were vaguely sourced to unidentified friends of the couple. The retraction and apology said National Enquirer officials "now accept that their marriage is not over and they are not getting divorced.

Rest easy, J.Lo. She says it never happened. Antonella Santini, the exotic dancer featured in salacious National Enquirer stories that purported to detail a sexual encounter she had with actress Jennifer Lopez's fiance, Ben Affleck, has sued the tabloid, saying she never had sex with the actor. The Enquirer, which published two articles about Affleck's visit to Brandi's all-nude club in Vancouver, British Columbia, and his alleged encounter with Santini, says it is standing by its story.

Lawyers defending the National Enquirer against a $10-million libel lawsuit asked a federal judge Friday for phone records they say could bolster the tabloid's story that claimed that the wife of former Rep. Gary Condit had attacked intern Chandra Levy. Carolyn Condit sued after the newspaper published an August 2001 story with the headline "Cops: Condit's Wife Attacked Chandra." Condit has said she never met the slain intern, and Washington, D.C.

After Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom here last June, hordes of media -- as has become common in such incidents -- descended to pick over every detail of the Smarts' existence. Her family was distressed by some of the coverage, especially a July 2 article in a supermarket tabloid, the National Enquirer, with the headline: "Utah Cops: Secret Diary Exposes Family Sex Ring."

The National Enquirer agreed Tuesday to give Los Angeles police tape recordings of what editors said was actor Robert Blake accusing his future wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, of tricking him by getting pregnant. Editor Steve Coz said the LAPD requested the tapes, which include about two hours of conversations between Blake and Bakley, who was shot to death May 4 in Studio City.

Call it tabloid backlash. Fed up with supermarket publications that peek into their bedrooms, hospital rooms and psyches, celebrities are striking back, telling their secrets before the tabloids can. Kate Jackson, one of TV's original "Charlie's Angels," chose last month to make public that she had just undergone a modified mastectomy after doctors discovered breast cancer.

Two supermarket tabloids will face off today in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, fighting over rights to a scoop that combines all the breathless elements the scandal sheets hold dear. There's the cheating celebrity husband, the seductress and the Manhattan hotel room wired for video. It's the story of sportscaster Frank Gifford's tryst with former stewardess Suzen Johnson at a New York hotel last year.

For the second time in six weeks, the National Enquirer--the weekly tabloid that once staged and then reported on the landing of space aliens--broke a major news story that left much of the mainstream media playing an embarrassing game of catch-up. As early as Thursday in its online edition, the Enquirer revealed that Hugh Rodham, the brother-in-law of former President Clinton, took $200,000 to lobby for clemency for a health marketer convicted of perjury and mail fraud.

A federal judge refused Thursday to block the National Enquirer from reporting that its archrival, the Globe, paid $250,000 to a flight attendant to "set up" TV sportscaster Frank Gifford in an extramarital tryst. The story, set to appear in next week's edition of the Enquirer, also contends that Gifford's wife, Kathie Lee, tried to get the flight attendant prosecuted for prostitution. At an emergency hearing before U.S.