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Old 08-20-2009, 11:09 AM  
Elli
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Alright, dug up a better article with more info:

http://www.canada.com/Model+wins+sui...179/story.html

Model wins suit against Google

Canadian successful in uncovering who called her a 'skank'

By David Wylie, Canwest News ServiceAugust 20, 2009



A Canadian supermodel has won a precedent-setting court battle to unmask an anonymous blogger who called her a "skank" on the Internet.

In a case with potentially far-reaching repercussions in the ever-expanding world of blogging, Toronto-native Liskula Cohen sought to unmask the writer who maligned her on the "Skanks in NYC" blog so that she could sue for defamation.

A Manhattan judge has now ruled the 1990s Vogue cover model was entitled to the writer's identity and ordered Google, which runs the platform Blogger, to turn it over, which Google did, providing the writer's e-mail address.

Cohen, 37, who has modelled for Giorgio Armani and Versace, was outraged after being called a "40-something" who "may have been hot 10 years ago" in articles posted in August 2008 that included photos of her.

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Joan Madden wrote in her decision "the thrust of the blog is that Cohen is a sexually promiscuous woman," reported ABC's Good Morning America.

In an interview with the U.S. network, Cohen said the first person she called after learning the identity of the writer was the offending blogger herself, whom it turns out Cohen knew personally.

"I just dialled her up," said Cohen. "I said 'no more lawyers, it's OK. I forgive you.' "

Pressed by the interviewer over whether she really forgives the blogger, Cohen was adamant she does. "I know who it is. I know why she did it. It's because she doesn't have anything else to do. It's sad."

Cohen told ABC the blogger was a woman who was a regular at dinners and parties. "Thank God it was her; she's an irrelevant person in my life," Cohen added.

It is unclear whether Cohen stills intends to take legal action.

Google eventually removed the blog, but continued to refuse to divulge the writer's identity until the court ordered it too.

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