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Billionaire to pay damages to French playwright
Sir David Barclay has been order to pay €6,000 in moral damages to Hédi Tillette de Clermont-Tonnerre, whose work satirised the lives of Barclay and his twin brother Frederick. The Daily Telegraph owner unsuccessfully sued the Frenchman for defamation and invasion of privacy over 'Two Brothers and the Lions', a play about two Britons "who become cold, selfish monsters in the heart of our democratic societies".
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