Lisa Marie sues newspaper
2008-03-10 15:19
London - US singer Lisa Marie
Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, is suing Britain's Daily
Mail newspaper for an article alleging she was "piling on the
pounds" and which forced her to announce that she was pregnant.
"My client is deeply upset and offended by this article,
especially as it was widely published just as she and her family
were meant to be celebrating her happy news," said lawyer
Simon Smith, who will represent Presley at London's High Court.
The Mail, published by Associated Newspapers, reported last
week that Presley was gaining weight.
Presley, 40, wrote last week that she had been forced to
"show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious
personal attack that I am in fact pregnant.
'Degrading stories'
"Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days
ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey
whilst eerily howling with delight," she wrote on her blog at
MySpace.com.
"Starting with a London publication and then New York and
Chicago all writing false defamatory degrading stories about all
of the dark possible reasons I could be putting on weight," she
added.
Presley has an 18-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son
from her first marriage to musician Danny Keough.
After that
union ended in 1994, she briefly married Michael Jackson and
then actor Nicolas Cage.