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Diaz Kisses, Enquirer Makes Up
Was the National Enquirer trippin' when it reported Cameron Diaz was stepping out on Justin Timberlake?
According to court documents filed Friday, the Enquirer and Diaz are close to reaching a settlement in the $30 million defamation lawsuit the actress filed against the tabloid last year over a cover story accusing her of cheating on Timberlake with a producer of her MTV show, Trippin'.
"Counsel report that settlement discussions have been productive and that parties are close to a settlement," read a summary of Friday's proceedings prepared by Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Valerie Baker's clerk.
Diaz slapped the magazine with charges of slander and libel after it was reported that she and the producer, Shane Nickerson, who's married, were seen smooching outside of a Los Angeles sound studio. The Charlie's Angels star was the host of Trippin', an ecologically minded reality show that followed celebs on their various jaunts around the globe to impoverished countries and other environmentally significant locales.
The offending article, which ran behind the headline "Cameron Caught Cheating," was published in the Enquirer's May 23, 2005, issue. It was accompanied by pictures that Diaz said were shot May 4, when she, Nickerson and several others were leaving the studio and saying their goodbyes out on the sidewalk. Everyone went their separate ways after exchanging hugs, she said.
Timberlake's true-blue girlfriend sued the mag in June 2005, accusing it of turning "an innocent, insignificant and non-memorable occurrence involving two coworkers and friends [into] a sensationalistic, scandalous and accusatory story which was completely false."
"She and Nickerson did not engage in any kissing or making out in front of Oracle studio or behind the bushes," the complaint read. "It never happened."
Nickerson and his mother-in-law, Jeanne Martin, signed on as coplaintiffs, alleging that an Enquirer reporter approached Martin at the Connecticut school were she is a teacher, wanting to have a private talk about her daughter, Nickerson's wife. The reporter allegedly told school officials it was an emergency.
The incident left Martin "emotionally and physically distraught" because she "assumed that something terrible had happened to her daughter," the lawsuit stated. The reporter, who did not identify himself to Martin, then allegedly proceeded to tell her that Nickerson was leaving her daughter for Diaz—and asked her how she felt about that.
The Enquirer responded with confidence at the time of the filing, saying through a spokesman that the tabloid stood behind its reporting "and will defend the suit aggressively in court."
In her suit, Diaz & Co. requested that they be awarded all the money the Enquirer earned from that issue, including what was made by the authors of the article, the photographer who snapped her and the Trippin' crew and the reporter who approached Martin.
Diaz successfully filed suit against Britain's Sun tabloid last year for running with a similar story linking her and Nickerson, scoring an unspecified amount of damages and a public apology.
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