Hello! magazine is to appeal over its courtroom clash with Hollywood couple Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas which left the celebrity magazine with a bill for millions of pounds.
The six-week hearing last year over snatched pictures of the couple's New York wedding became one of the most publicised cases heard at the High Court in London.
Zeta-Jones, 34, told how she had felt "devastated, shocked and appalled" when she realised that paparazzi had gatecrashed her wedding at the Plaza Hotel in November 2000.
She and her 59-year-old husband had signed an exclusive £1 million ($2.74 million) deal with OK! magazine for pictures after turning down a higher offer from Hello!.
Zeta-Jones said she felt "violated" when Hello! published unauthorised photographs, which she claimed were "sleazy and unflattering".
Justice Lindsay ruled that Hello! had breached the couple's rights of confidence but they had no claim in law of an invasion of privacy. He awarded the couple £14,600 but OK! won £1,033,156 for what the judge said was commercial damage to its expected exclusive coverage. Hello! solicitor Chris Hutchings said the magazine was appealing against both liability and the damages award to their rival, OK!
Zeta-Jones case appeal
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