Madonna Wins Damages Over Wedding Photos

In celebrity legal news, Madonna has accepted the damages from a British newspaper for publishing pictures of her wedding to Guy Ritchie that may have been stolen from her home.

Although the singer did not appear at court, her lawyer says that she accepted “substantial” damages from Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Mail on Sunday.

No amount has been said, but layer John Kelly says that she would donate the money to her Raising Malawi charity.

Madonna and Ritchie divorced previously this year and had taken damages in excess of $8 million.

Kelly also added that they went above and beyond to keep their December 2000 wedding private, but three years later, an interior designer working at Madonna’s home copied 27 photos at least from the wedding album.

The designer then took them to a woman who offered to sell them to the Mail on Sunday. Kelly said the paper did turn them down at first, but then bought the pictures last year after the couple announced their public divorce.

The Mail on Sunday then published them without consulting or warning Madonna. If they had, Madonna would have gone to court to order that the pictures not be published.

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