Wayne Rooney’s wife wins legal battle against Jamie Vardy’s wife in a libel case

Wayne Rooney’s wife wins legal battle against Jamie Vardy’s wife in a libel case

The Rooneys and Vardys at the courtrooms.

After a protracted saga, the decision in the Coleen Rooney v. Rebekah Vardy case is in. Back in 2019, Rooney, the wife of England’s all-time leading scorer Wayne, charged Vardy with disclosing false information to the media.

The 36-year-old stated she reached to the idea Vardy was accountable on Twitter in an unprecedented statement, after barring everyone on her private Instagram account save for her account and witnessing the tales become viral.

Vardy immediately refuted the claims and filed a libel lawsuit against Rooney, which resulted in a nine-day trial at London’s High Court that featured shady courtroom sketches, details about Riyad Mahrez‘s strike, Peter Andre’s manhood, and very different accounts of a conversation between the footballing spouses during the 2016 Euros.

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The lengthy trial of Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy:

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After almost three years of drama, the decision was finally made on Friday by remote decision, with Rooney prevailing in the courtroom.

According to the Huffington Post, Judge Mrs. Justice Steyn issued the decision and stated that it was probably true that Caroline Watt, Vardy’s former agent, “undertook the direct act” of leaking information to The Sun.

Vardy “condoned” the behavior, she added, and “actively engaged” in it by providing screenshots. 

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She said: “Nonetheless, the evidence … clearly shows, in my view, that Mrs Vardy knew of and condoned this behavior, actively engaging in it by directing Ms Watt to the private Instagram account, sending her screenshots of Mrs Rooney’s posts, drawing attention to items of potential interest to the press, and answering additional queries raised by the press via Ms Watt.”

“In my judgment, the conclusions that I have reached as to the extent to which the claimant engaged in disclosing to The Sun information to which she only had access as a permitted follower of an Instagram account which she knew, and Mrs Rooney repeatedly asserted, was private, suffice to show the single meaning is substantially true.”

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