Diaz wins libel battle over cheating claim

Actress Cameron Diaz accepted “substantial” libel damages today over a claim that she was caught cheating with a married man.

Diaz, 34, who announced the end of her four-year relationship with singer Justin Timberlake last month, sued American Media Incorporated, publishers of the National Enquirer, over an article published on its website in May last year.

Her solicitor, Simon Smith, told Mr Justice Eady, at London’s High Court, that the article reported that she had a “smooching session” with Shane Nickerson, the supervising producer on her MTV show, Trippin’.