Lewinsky comparison grounds for libel
Comparing a woman to Monica Lewinsky is an egregious enough offense to be grounds for libel, Italy’s high court says.
The Cessation Court ruled Tuesday such is the reputation of the former White House intern for U.S. President Bill Clinton that when a Puglia woman sued a lawyer for saying she had a “Lewinskian nature,” it was a bad enough insult to be considered libel, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
The woman, identified only Gennarina M., reportedly was angry that a lower court ruled the unidentified lawyer did not libel her with the jibe, so she appealed, and the Cessation Court said a new trial was in order.
ANSA said Gennarina M. only sued the lawyer after seeing the derogatory description — which also accused her of “uterine ramblings” — in a legal document.
Well–same in America. Can’t call someone a slut and not impune her virtue which tends to lessen one’s reputation and standing in the community. Thats slander. Do it in writing, thats libel.
We may most often here this said of some public figure that in America can be slandered absent malice. Britain not so much.
So, yea==doing the Monica can be grounds for all sorts of things, kneepads or not.
hhmm i thought it means she dribbles on herself a lot…
Being compared to Bill Clinton should be the real insult.
I’m thinking Italy needs a humanitarian shipment of iPods for Christmas.
That really was the blow job heard around the world.
This something to aspire to.
Saying “uterine ramblings” is much more fun, anyway.