Alejandro Sanz wins suit against tabloid

Alejandro Sanz wins suit against tabloid

A Spanish newspaper will have to pay the singer $44,000 for claiming that he was involved in a homosexual relationship

A Spanish court has ordered the tabloid El Mundo to pay 30 thousand euros ($43.9 thousand) to Alejandro Sanz for reporting that the singer was involved in a gay with a fashion designer. Pero este pleito legal no es novedad. Pues, según informes, aunque en 1999 un juzgado de Madrid había reconocido el derecho del intérprete de "Corazón Partío" a ser indemnizado por este caso, en el 2001 la Audiencia Provincial revocó la sentencia, considerando que las figuras públicas deben soportar la crítica y que el artículo reflejaba el "sentir general de la calle".

The court, who held the paper and the journalist, Carmen Rigalt, liablie, said it was illegal to defame someone's personal and private life.