Madonna has accepted substantial undisclosed damages for privacy and infringement of copyright over the Mail on Sunday’s publication of “purloined” photos of her wedding to Guy Ritchie.
The singer, who has just completed her Sticky & Sweet world tour, was not at London’s High Court for the settlement of her action against Associated Newspapers.
Her solicitor, John Kelly, told Mr Justice Peter Smith that she would be donating the damages to her Raising Malawi charity.
Mr Kelly said that the star went to great pains to ensure that the December 2000 wedding was wholly private.
But, in 2003, an interior designer, who was working on her home in Beverly Hills, surreptitiously copied at least 27 photos from the wedding album and provided them to Bonnie Robinson who, in June 2008, offered to sell them to the Mail on Sunday.
Mr Kelly said that the newspaper did not purchase them at that time but waited until October 2008, when Madonna had announced that she was divorcing and there was huge media interest about her marriage, to purchase the purloined photos.
Just three days after she had announced her divorce – and without any warning to Madonna – it published 10 of the photos.
Associated Newspapers’ solicitor, Niri Shan, said that it accepted that it was wrong to act in this way and offered its sincere apologies to Madonna and her family for invading her privacy and infringing her copyright.
Sticky & Sweet 
Tom Munro 
Revolver 
Hope For Haiti 
Sticky & Sweet 
Madonna - Celebration 
Madonna - Celebration
Madonna - Celebration
Madonna - Celebration
Madonna - Celebration 
I Am Because We Are 
Filth and Wisdom 
I Am Because We Are 
Miles Away 
Sticky & Sweet 
Madonna Confessions 
Madonna 2009 
Give It 2 Me 
Give It 2 Me 
Hard Candy 
Hard Candy 
4 Minutes 
4 Minutes 
I have already seen it somethere…
I agree, 10 milion dollars to Malawi Project and another 4 Madonna’s wedding for it again:)
im SURE some of the money will fall into Madonnas bank account……greedy whore.
Well stupid, that was her wedding and her pictures, should the money go to you? bitch!!!..Its her life, her Money. However she wants to spend it is nono of your businnes.
No wonder they hate her so much. I wish she could sue the other UK rags as well. The money is going to charity so it’s a win-win situation.
No wonder who hates her so much? Your message makes no sense whatsoever.
Just more money for M. Sad.
No, dingbat. The money is going to charity and a theft of copyrighted pictures occurred so she had every right to sue.
i wonder if Madonna will sue her brother over this incident as well?
rumor is, it was Christopher who “stole” the pics from Madonna
wow….if it is true he’s lower than i thought
You can’t keep blaming everything on Chris.
“Rumour”, not “rumor”.
i’m gonna fuck the stud up the butt
ME FIRST!!!!!
Ooh!! now i understand why daily mail allways take bad ( photoshop) picture of Madonna and writes bad things about Madonna. good for you Madonna take all their money.