Gianna Iacino
On 19 January 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that a newspaper does not need to pay damages for calling an actress "completely unknown“ (application no. 52137/12).
The plaintiff is an actress who was appointed to the subsidies advisory board of the Greek Ministry of Culture’s Theatre Department. The defendant, the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea wrote an article about that appointment referring to the plaintiff as “completely unknown”. The actress brought a libel action against the newspaper and argued to be violated in her personality rights. She felt insulted by the description as “completely unknown”.…
