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...Bryan Burnett Piscataway...
Flashbulbs popped and reporters shouted questions when a jubilant Carol Burnett emerged from Los Angeles county superior court last week, hugging fans and signing autographs for jurors. After eight days of testimony and three of deliberation, the jurors had provided a classic Tinseltown ending to a televised trial that was followed as avidly as a soap opera. They awarded Burnett a whopping $1.6 million in damages in her libel suit against the sensation-seeking National Enquirer (circ. 5,100,000). Said the relieved star: "There...
...verdict capped a five-year legal battle that began when the Enquirer claimed that Burnett had been "boisterous" at a Washington, D.C., restaurant called the Rive Gauche. The gossipy weekly reported that she "had a loud argument with another diner, Henry Kissinger," spilled a glass of wine on a second patron, then tried to share her chocolate souffle with everyone in the place. Burnett did not deny that she dined at the restaurant that night, spoke to Kissinger and had "two, maybe three" glasses of wine. But, she testified, "They portrayed me as drunk." The Enquirer maintained that its information...
Convinced that the Enquirer had acted with reckless disregard for the truth, the jury awarded Burnett $300,000 in general damages and $1.3 million-almost as much as the privately owned tabloid says it earned in 1980-in punitive damages (her legal fees were more than $200,000). William Masterson, the Enquirer's lawyer, said the decision would be appealed...
...more plaintiffs to bring more lawsuits seeking more money." As for the Enquirer, it vows no slackening of its editorial zeal. Says Editor Iain Calder: "Our job is to provide our readers with interesting, informative and accurate articles, and this is what we will continue to do." Counters Burnett: "That was an expensive dinner at the Rive Gauche...