Actress Sienna Miller wins privacy damages

Actress Sienna Miller wins privacy damages
Actress Sienna Miller has been awarded 35,000 pounds in damages from two tabloid newspapers after they agreed an out of court settlement over claims they had breached her privacy, her lawyers said on Monday.

Miller, star of movies such as "Layer Cake" and "Alfie," had sued the Sun and News of the World papers over a series of what her lawyer said were intrusive articles and photos published in June and July.

In a statement, Mark Thomson of law firm Carter-Ruck said terms of the settlement were approved by London's High Court, with the papers' publishers News Group Newspapers agreeing to pay the damages and Miller's legal costs.

Thomson cited a letter from Tom Crone, News Group Newspapers' senior lawyer, which said the papers admitted they had been at fault.

"We acknowledged that on the specific facts and circumstances of this case you had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the information and the photographs that we published," the letter said.

"We also accept that we should not have published such information or photographs."

Miller's private life and particularly her romantic liaisons have long been staple fodder for the tabloid press.