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January 15, 2009

Sharon Osbourne libel win over Sun ‘destruction’ story

By Roger Pearson

TV presenter Sharon Osbourne today accepted undisclosed but ‘substantial’libel damages over an article in the Sun which claimed she was ‘driving her frail husband Ozzy Osbourne to destruction.”

Her solicitor, John Kelly told Mr Justice David Eady that the article appeared on 1 October 2007 under the heading: ‘I fear poor Ozzy will die on the stage.”

Kelly told the judge: ‘The article wrongly alleged that the claimant was ‘driving her frail husband Ozzy Osbourne to destruction,’ was working Ozzy Osbourne ‘so hard she will kill him’ and that ‘Sharon will keep Ozzy on the road until like Tommy Cooper he dies on stage.'”

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