The daughter of Bob Geldof has been awarded substantial undisclosed libel damages over a British newspaper article that implied she was a prostitute who charged £5,000 a night.
The 20-year-old TV presenter and model had brought legal proceedings over a September 2008 front page story in the Daily Star.
Her solicitor, Jonathan Coad, told Mr Justice Eady at London's High Court that she had initially gone to the British Press Complaints Commission about the item, headlined: "Peaches: Spend the night with me for 5k".
He said Express Newspapers, which publishes the newspaper, acknowledged the words implied Ms Geldof "provided services of a personal sexual nature for the payment of a fee".
"The defendant refused to publish a retraction and apology on its front page but instead published it on page two," Mr Coad added.
"As the publication was substantially smaller, the claimant considered this to be unacceptable as it was not, in her view, adequately prominent.
"The Press Complaints Commission adjudicated upon the prominence and found it to be proportionate.
"It is for this reason that the claimant now wishes to make this statement in open court to make the falsity of this allegation a matter of public record."
The newspaper's solicitor Zoe Norden said her client accepted there was "no truth in the allegation".
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