Cornwell sues author for libel
Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell has filed a libel lawsuit in Richmond, Va., against another author and is asking a federal judge to bar him from posting defamatory messages about her on the Internet.
Cornwell wants the court to enforce an injunction issued in 2000 against Leslie R. Sachs and seeks a broader ban to prevent Sachs from further writing negatively about Cornwell on websites or allowing such statements to remain on those sites.
She also seeks unspecified financial compensation for defamatory postings since Aug. 14, 2000.
In an e-mail response to Cornwell’s attorneys, Sachs, author of the 1998 mystery “The Virginia Ghost Murders,” called the lawsuit “hilarious.”
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