Leonardo DiCaprio has gotten a French court to order the magazine Oops! to print a condemnation of its story how the actor purportedly got the pop star Rihanna pregnant and then didn't want the baby. DiCaprio was also awarded damages of 8,000 euros, but what will be peculiar to Americans is how the French court reached its decision. The ruling was not based on a defamation claim per se, but rather an amalgam of defamation and privacy where the truth or falsity of the story wasn't essential to the court's verdict. The magazine attempted to argue that DiCaprio never denied a relationship with Rihanna and spoke about his private life in media interviews, but the French court responds that a salacious story on the cover of Oops! was "inherently likely to cause serious harm to" the actor.
