Published on: 6th October, 2009
Singer Madonna has accepted ample undisclosed damages for privacy and copyright over the Mail on Sunday after publicizing her wedding photos with Guy Ritchie. The star went on great pains that her wedding photos were made public said John Kelly.
Madonna will donate the substantial recovery to Raising Malawi charity told her solicitor John Kelly. Singer who has just completed her Sticky and Sweet world tour was not present at London High Court for the settlement for her charge against Associated Newspaper. In 2003 an interior designer who was working at her home in Beverly Hills secretly copied not less than 27 photos from her wedding album and provided to Bonnie Robinson who later in 2008 offered to sell them to Mail on Sunday. Mr. Kelly said the newspaper did not buy the photograph at that time but waited until October 2008, when she announced her decision of divorce with film director Guy Ritchie publicly without any warning and notice they published 10 of her photographs. Mail on Sunday admitted their mistake and paid £5,000 for the images of her wedding held at Skibo Castle in Scotland. Her wedding was kept private and she had decided not to sell her pictures to media said John Kelly He added saying it was important to maintain the privacy of the occasion. Pictures were shooted by her friend and fashion photographer Jean- Baptiste Madonna kept in her album. Niri Shah Solicitor for Associated Newspaper said it was wrong to act in this manner and sincerely apologized to Madonna and her family for invading her privacy and infringing her copyright.