Prague, Nov 13 (CTK) – The Bauer Media publishers must apologise and pay 1.2 million crowns in compensation to Dagmar Havlova for an untrue article claiming that she had a lover when her husband, former president Vaclav Havel (1936-2011), was dying, the Prague Municipal Court ruled Friday.
Havlova originally demanded a five-million-crown compensation for the article in the tabloid magazine Pestry svet (Colourful World).
“The court is of the view that the information published in the article was completely untrue and not authenticated,” judge Dagmar Stamidisova adding that the article violated Havlova´s personality rights.
She added that even if the former first lady had had a lover, it would have been her private business.
The article claims that Havlova arrived in a booked hotel room in Frantiskovy Lazne spa town, west Bohemia, along with her lover on December 16, that is only two days before Havel´s death.
Both Havlova and her alleged partner Frantisek Loukota, whose photograph with her the tabloid published, dismissed the report as untrue.
Loukota, assistant director, said the photo was probably taken during the shooting of a TV series, in which Havlova played, when he accompanied her when she went shopping.
He allegedly met Havlova during the shooting of The Leaving, a film based on Havel´s last drama that Havel also directed.
Havlova previously said in court that she had not been to Frantiskovy Lazne in the past few years at all and she did not know the hotel mentioned in the article either.
The nuns looking after her husband supported her version. They said Havlova spent two days before her husband´s death with her grand-daughters since Havel did not want her to go to their cottage wehre stayed then to see him in a storm.
