Josh Hartnett accepts £20,000 libel damages from Daily Mirror...

Josh Hartnett accepts £20,000 libel damages from Daily Mirror - Graham Atkins Solicitor

Posted 2025-03-25 17:53:48

Hollywood actor Josh Hartnett has accepted £20,000 in libel damages from the Daily Mirror after it falsely claimed he indulged in "steamy shenanigans" with a mystery woman caught on CCTV at a London hotel.

Hartnett, who starred in Pearl Harbour and Black Hawk Down, and is currently appearing in a West End production of Rain Man, is to donate the money to a variety of charities.

The Mirror claimed in an article on September 1, headlined "Josh Hartnett's saucy CCTV romp", that he and an unknown woman had an encounter in the library of the Soho Hotel.

Mr Justice Eady, sitting at the high court in London today, was told that the article claimed the pair were caught on CCTV cameras.

The star's solicitor Graham Atkins told the high court: "The article alleged that the claimant 'took a mystery lady' to the Soho Hotel in London and that 'their steamy shenanigans were caught on CCTV'."

"It further alleged that 'dumbstruck' and 'cringing hotel workers saw all of Josh's X-rated moves' which resulted in the Soho Hotel asking the claimant 'to take his personal business elsewhere in the future'," Atkins said.

He added the defendant, Mirror Group Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mirror, accepted that the allegations "are entirely false".

Victoria Jolliffe, for MGN, said the newspaper apologised for any "distress, hurt and embarrassment" it had caused.

Jolliffe said the paper hoped "the record will have been set straight and the claimant's reputation restored".

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