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Author Loses Libel Case Over ‘Slut’ Character

Reality-based fiction has suffered another major blow as a Georgia jury awarded $100,000 in damages to a woman who claimed that a character in the best-selling novel "The Red Hat Club" falsely portrayed her as an "alcoholic slut." more

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