Sienna Miller has won damages from a British newspaper over invasion of privacy claims. Photo / AP
Sienna Miller has won damages from a British newspaper over invasion of privacy claims. Photo / AP
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Actress Sienna Miller has accepted £15,000 (NZ$40,000) in damages in an out-of-court settlement over a photo she claimed violated her privacy.
The 26-year-old launched legal proceedings against British newspaper the Daily Star after it published a photo taken of her in Los Angeles on September 11 this year.
A report published on the BBC News website says the newspaper also printed an apology to the actress.
A statement from the Daily Star says, "On September 11th we published an article about the actress Sienna Miller. A photograph of Sienna in a building in Los Angeles accompanied the article.
"We accept, as we said in the article, that Ms. Miller was extremely harassed and distressed by persistent pursuit and intimidating tactics adopted by numerous paparazzi in seeking to obtain photographs of her, including the very photograph that we published.
"We apologise to Sienna for publishing this photograph."
Miller has also lodged a separate privacy-violation action against two other British tabloids, seeking damages over photographs taken of her and married actor Balthazar Getty on a yacht near Italy in July.
