MailOnline has agreed to pay Gabby and Kenny Logan “substantial damages” in relation to an article falsely claiming they had received 500,000 for promoting tax avoidance schemes to their celebrity friends and had sought to disguise the income as loans.
Statements read at the high court on Friday, said the former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie had also agreed to pay substantial damages to the BBC TV presenter and her businessman husband for a tweet he posted about the story.
After the article appeared on 28 February, the Logans submitted a complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso). In a retraction and apology published on 24 May, MailOnline said: “In fact Gabby played no part in the business and earned no income from it. Kenny’s role was solely to introduce clients to companies who promoted legitimate business services rather than tax avoidance schemes. In addition, they did not ‘disguise’ any income from this activity in order to avoid paying tax, as we reported. We apologise for the errors and are happy to set the record straight.”
One of the three statements read on Friday, said MailOnline’s publisher, Associated Newspapers, had agreed to pay the Logans unspecified damages and pay their legal costs.
MacKenzie posted a tweet on 28 February with a video of him embedded in which he said the couple had “admitted that they were effectively commission agents for a tax avoidance scheme”.
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