Sophie Dahl, author, celebrity TV cook and former model, has launched a libel action over an article that appeared in the Femail section of the Daily Mail.
The libel action refers to a column written by Liz Jones, former editor of fashion magazine Marie Claire, who now writes for the Daily Mail.
Sophie Dahl claims content from the December article, which appeared under the headline ‘March Of Anorexia Chic’ was allegedly defamatory towards her and is demanding damages and costs from the Daily Mail’s publisher, Associated Newspapers, reports the Press Gazette, the industry journal of the UK media industry.
In the article Liz Jones recounts an experience when she felt tired of the amount of what she perceived as ultra-thin, ultra-young models in the pages of Marie Claire, the magazine she was then editing. In the article she recounts how she decided to offer Marie Claire readers a choice by publishing two versions, one with Sophie Dahl on the cover, the other with Pamela Anderson.
According to the Press Gazette Sophie Dahl, who has instructed media specialist solicitors Harbottle and Lewis to act for her, says she suffered considerable injury to her reputation as a result of content contained in the article.
London based Harbottle and Lewis are specialist lawyers with a wide ranging background of media industry legal services including theatre, film and television, music industry, publishing, advertising, interactive entertainment, sport, sponsorship and fashion. Their range of legal services areas includes intellectual property, employment, tax affairs, finance and corporate and commercial work as well as litigation. Subsequently, the firm has had many previous celebrity clients including Kate Moss and Gary Rhodes.
According to the writ, being brought for Sophie Dahl, she is seeking aggravated damages, in part, as the Daily Mail failed to apologise to her or respond to a letter of complaint. In addition to damages, Sophie Dahl is seeking an injunction banning repetition of the allegations at the centre of her legal battle.
Sophie Dahl is mostly famous for her modelling career. Dahl featured prominently in many large-circulation fashion magazines, including Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire and the British, Italian and US versions of Vogue and Dahl has also appeared in high profile advertising campaigns including the Yves Saint-Laurent perfume brand Opium.
However, she has a stunning literary pedigree. She was born in London in 1977 and was immortalised as the orphan Sophie in the children’s classic The BFG, by Roald Dahl, her grandfather.
In 2003 her bestselling novella, The Man With The Dancing Eyes was published by Bloomsbury. She has also contributed to Truth or Dare, published by Picador in 2005. Dahl has also been a contributing editor for Men’s Vogue, and her work has been published in American Vogue, The Telegraph, The Guardian and The Spectator. Dahl’s Playing With the Grown-Ups was published in October 2007.
Sophie Dahl is also famous for her relationship with musician Jamie Cullum whom she married earlier this year.
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