Knightley accepts libel settlement

Keira Knightley has accepted a $6,000 settlement of her libel claim against a British tabloid over a story that suggested she was to blame for the death of an anorexic teenager.

The actress also said the story falsely suggested that she had an eating disorder.

Kate Wilson, representing the publisher of the Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers, told a London court this week that the newspaper accepted that Knightley was not responsible for a death and that Knightley “does not have an eating disorder and has not misled the public.”

Knightley, who was not in court, intends to donate the settlement to Beat, an eating disorder and mental illness charity.