Coleen Rooney, spouse of ex-England soccer captain Wayne Rooney, spent greater than 1.8 million kilos on a high-profile libel case introduced towards her by Rebekah Vardy, spouse of her husband’s former teammate, a London court docket heard on Monday.
Vardy, who misplaced the case, is now persevering with the authorized battle that briefly gripped Britain, arguing over the invoice for Rooney’s authorized charges, which she has been saddled with after her defeat.
The spouse of Leicester Metropolis striker Jamie Vardy, Rebekah had sued for libel after Rooney accused her of leaking tales about her to the Solar tabloid – prompting a trial which drew within the public with its mixture of glamour, soccer and on-line sleuthing.
For her sleuthing Rooney was dubbed “WAGatha Christie”, after the “WAGs” moniker given to footballers’ wives and girlfriends, and the famend creator of quite a few detective novels.
Rooney had turned investigator to trace down the wrongdoer of the leaks, blocking everybody from viewing her Instagram account besides one particular person – Vardy – after which posted a sequence of false tales to see whether or not they leaked out, which they did.
When Rooney named Vardy because the wrongdoer, Vardy sued and started a case that ended within the Excessive Courtroom ruling in 2022 that Rooney proved her allegation was “considerably true”.
With Vardy dealing with Rooney’s authorized invoice, her lawyer Jamie Carpenter argued in court docket filings that the invoice included a senior lawyer staying at a London resort, the place they incurred fees for dinner, drinks and the mini bar, “all of that are claimed”.
Carpenter additionally mentioned Rooney’s trial advocate David Sherborne – a high-profile lawyer who individually represents Prince Harry and others in phone-hacking litigation – incurred charges of practically 500,000 kilos for the entire case.
Rooney, nonetheless, mentioned Vardy’s conduct in denying any data of the leaks earlier than suggesting it may be her former agent shortly earlier than trial brought about vital expense.
The listening to, which neither Rooney nor Vardy attended, earlier than Choose Andrew Gordon-Saker is because of conclude on Wednesday.
