Morgan says he will sue Spencer over false claims in Diana memoir
Piers Morgan says he will sue Earl Spencer and Penguin Random House over false claims in a Diana memoir.
Morgan says Spencer's book contains "demonstrable lies." It claims Morgan published photographs from hidden cameras at a gym where Diana exercised.
Morgan argues Spencer is wrong. Morgan did not join the Daily Mirror until October 1995.
The photos appeared almost two years earlier. On 7 November 1993, Morgan was working at The Sun.
The Sun was the Mirror's rival paper. Spencer writes that Morgan responded "surly" to being uninvited from Diana's 1997 funeral.
Spencer links this to the gym photo controversy. Morgan has instructed lawyers to demand the passages be removed from the 384-page memoir before its international release.
- 384 pages
- Memoir length
- November 7, 1993
- Publication date of photographs
- October 1995
- Morgan's Mirror start date
- The Sun
- Morgan's employer then
Why it mattersThe case tests whether memoir writers can be held accountable for factual claims about named figures. The outcome could change the publishing industry.
AustraliaThe case is being reported in Australian media but has no direct local impact unless Australian courts become involved.
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