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Rebekah Vardy has agreed to pay almost £1.2m of Coleen Rooney’s legal costs following their high-profile Wagatha Christie libel battle, a judge has been told.
A specialist costs court has previously been told that Mrs Rooney, the wife of former England striker Wayne Rooney, ran up a legal bill totalling more than £1.8m after she successfully defended Mrs Vardy’s High Court claim in 2022.
The high-profile court case took place after Mrs Rooney, accused Mrs Vardy on social media in 2019 of leaking her private information to the press.
After Mrs Vardy lost the battle, the judge ordered her to pay 90% of Mrs Rooney’s costs, including an initial payment of £800,000.
In written submissions for a hearing on Tuesday, Mrs Vardy’s barrister, Juliet Wells, said that Mrs Rooney’s total legal bill had now been settled at almost £1.2m.
Ms Wells continued that Mrs Rooney is now claiming additional “assessment costs” of more than £300,000, which she described as “grossly disproportionate” and should be capped at “no more than £100,000”.
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Lawyers for Mrs Rooney said in written submissions that Mrs Vardy was “the author of her own misfortune” and that she should “reflect upon her approach”.
Mrs Vardy, wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, unsuccessfully tried to sue Mrs Rooney in a libel battle in 2022 that captivated some areas of the public and was later dramatised for TV.
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