As expected, a London court has fined Condé Nast £10,000 (approximately $14,573.20) after the publisher was found in contempt of court for printing a Michael Wolff column about the then-ongoing News of the World phone-hacking trial. You can read more about the case here and here.
Condé Nast Held in Contempt for Publishing Michael Wolff Column
Earlier this year, England’s attorney general accused the magazine publisher Condé Nast of interfering with the 2013 News of the World phone-hacking trial by permitting British GQ to publish a courtroom report—excerpted here—by the American media columnist Michael Wolff. The charges were brazenly contemptuous of press…
British GQ Disappears Negative Feature Story About Rupert Murdoch
In April 2014, the media critic Michael Wolff published a column in British GQ about the then-ongoing phone hacking trial against several journalists and editors employed by Rupert Murdoch’s shuttered tabloid News of the World. Titled “The court without the king,” the critical article is now at the center of a…
Naomi Campbell Asks the Questions Now
In addition to finally copping to her cell-phone maid assault, Naomi Campbell has somehow scored a sweet interviewer's gig with British GQ. This supposedly came about due to Naomi's stellar performance when grilled for GQ by an old enemy, i.e. columnist Piers Morgan; he had to pay her $1.7 million in damages in…
