Wednesday, August 30, 2000
Posh Spice, Beckham drop court battle
Victoria and David Beckham are giving up the fight.
Posh Spice and her soccer star husband have dropped their court case seeking to ban the publication of a book about their lives, Reuters reports.
The two went to court on Tuesday, hoping to ban "Posh and Becks" written by biographer Andrew Morton with inside information from their former bodyguard Mark Niblett.
The U.K. star-couple's lawyer, Michael Tugendhat told the court judge that a settlement had been reached with Michael O'Mara Books, the company planning to publish "Posh and Becks".
Tugendhat went on to say that the public shouldn't assume the Beckham's agree with the contents of the biography just because the case was dropped.
The publishing company however, claimed the agreement was "a complete victory."
"We're publishing the book as scheduled, the full thrust of what Andrew Morton had intended to write is still there intact," the publisher told Sky television. "We've removed 200 or 300 words which we feel are relatively trivial and, in return for that, the Beckhams have dropped the case that has been running now and have also promised not to sue us for libel or defamation or anything in the future."
At the beginning of the case, Posh and Beckham wanted the book banned all together, then tried to have 2,500 words cut from the 60,000-word draft of the book in question.
O'Mara argued that the couple has made so much of their private life public knowledge that a biography on them was acceptable.
"They've sold their privacy to OK magazine, for instance their wedding for apparently a million pounds (about $2.2 million Cdn)," the company said. "In the current issue of that magazine, we see David Beckham at home with his parents lounging in very little clothing."
Posh and Beckham plan to release their own book this fall.
-- AllPop
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