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Standard pays damages to chef

Stephen Brook, press correspondent Friday July 27, 2007
MediaGuardian.co.uk


Marco Pierre White: paid undisclosed damages and costs by the London Evening Standard.

The London Evening Standard has paid undisclosed damages and legal costs to celebrity chef Marco Pierre White for falsely claiming that he hit his restaurant manager over the head with a saucepan. The original story, headlined "Ow! Marco wields saucepan", which appeared in Londoner's Diary on June 1, falsely alleged that the chef had hit George Perendes, manager of Luciano's restaurant in central London, on the head with a saucepan.

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Marco Pierre White wins apology from Evening Standard

Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Evening Standard, have today accepted that an allegation printed in the 1 June 2007 edition of the Evening Standard was untrue. It was alleged that Marco Pierre White struck his restaurant manager at Luciano on the head with a saucepan causing a flesh wound.

The Evening Standard published an apology for any embarrassment caused and have agreed to pay Marco damages and his legal costs.

For more information on this please contact the following lawyer with conduct:

Rod Christie-Miller
Partner, Schillings
rod.christie-miller@schillings.co.uk