Timberlake awarded libel damages over 'affair' claim

Singer Justin Timberlake today accepted “substantial”, undisclosed libel damages over allegations that he had a secret fling with a model behind the back of girlfriend Cameron Diaz.

His solicitor, Simon Smith, told Mr Justice Fulford in the High Court in London, that publication of the allegations in the News of the World in July 2004 had caused damage to the performer’s “personal and professional reputations”.