Late playwright's partner wins damages - Graham Atkins

Graham Atkins Solicitor06 Oct, 2023News

The former partner of playwright Anthony Shaffer has accepted substantial undisclosed damages from a newspaper that reported she had pretended to have a relationship with him so she could claim on his estate. Marie Capece Minutolo, a sculptor and businesswoman, sued London's Evening Standard newspaper over the July 2002 article, which claimed that rather than being Shaffer's partner, she was simply his research assistant.