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 Entertainment | Books | May 2006 
First Lady Wins Damages for Divorce Story
 Reuters
| | Mexico's First Lady Marta Sahagun receives a bunch of flowers from a Bolivian child during an honour session at the National Congress in La Paz, Bolivia, May 3, 2005. Sahagun won $178,000 (96,600 pounds) in damages against an Argentine author and a Mexican magazine on Tuesday for invasion of privacy in an article about the breakup of a previous marriage. (Reuters/Jose Luis Quintana |
Mexico City - Mexican first lady Marta Sahagun won $178,000 in damages against an Argentine author and a Mexican magazine on Tuesday for invasion of privacy in an article about the breakup of a previous marriage.
A Mexican court ruled that Proceso weekly news magazine and writer Olga Wornat damaged Sahagun's reputation by publishing part of a petition she wrote to the Catholic Church in the 1990s asking for the annulment of her marriage to a Mexican businessman.
The 2005 article, the reproduction of part of a book by Wornat, detailed the breakdown of her marriage to Manuel Bribiesca, including descriptions of their waning sex life.
After that marriage was annulled, Sahagun, a devout Catholic, married President Vicente Fox in 2001. She did not dispute the facts of the article but said that publishing it was demeaning to her.
Another court ruled in March that the same book by Wornat, "Damned Chronicles From A Devastated Mexico," libeled one of Sahagun's sons by alleging he made a fortune from shady government-funded building contracts,
Sahagun, the president's former press secretary, married Fox in a surprise ceremony a year after he won an election that ended 71 years of one-party rule.
Despite strong ratings in popularity polls, she has been vilified in Mexico for her alleged political meddling and was forced in 2004 to deny she had ambitions to run for president.
Fox will stand down after Mexico's July 2 election. He is barred by the constitution from running again. |
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