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Ashley Judd Makes Nice
The actress won an undisclosed sum in British court last week after a judge there ordered the celeb magazine Now to pay Judd for fabricating a story about the actress.
But she shouldn't plan on cashing the check just yet.
The bigger news is that Judd, 33, was on the settling end of a libel lawsuit filed against her by a freelance journalist from Louisville, Kentucky.
Larry Birkhead, 28, filed suit last year in Jefferson County Circuit Court against the actress after she allegedly dissed him on Entertainment Tonight.
During a 1999 interview, Birkhead grilled Ashley's mom, Naomi, about her stance on the proliferation of violence and sex in Hollywood. In an article that appeared in USA Today, Birkhead quoted Naomi as saying she didn't want Ashley to make the 1996 TV movie Norma Jean and Marilyn, about the life of Marilyn Monroe. "Pop and I wouldn't watch it," the Judd matriarch said.
Then Birkhead asked about Ashley's R-rated film Double Jeopardy, in which she plays a revenge-minded woman wrongly jailed for the murder of her husband, and, according to his article, Naomi refused to comment.
Ashley subsequently appeared on Entertainment Tonight, where she said the article was a "complete fabrication and her mother gave her total enthusiastic response to the film."
Birkhead's attorney said Judd's statements were libelous because she directly accused him of lying. Birkhead is seeking punitive and compensatory damages from Judd, as well as Entertainment Tonight. ET has reportedly settled with Birkhead, too.
Terms of the deal, which was inked last week, were kept under wraps.
"I was extremely happy with the settlement," Birkhead says on the phone from Louisville. "With it all behind us, we can all just get on...her with her movies, me with my reporting."
He also says he harbors no ill-will toward the Someone Like You actress.
"I'm still a Judd fan," he tells Louisville's Courier-Journal. "In fact, I just ordered some personalized checks for a new checking account I just opened. They're really neat. They have the Judds' pictures on them."
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