Liberace v Daily Mirror

Liberace v Daily Mirror is a 1959 English legal case in which the American entertainer Liberace sued the Daily Mirror columnist William Connor for libel after Connor, who while writing under the pen name Cassandra,[1] published an article strongly hinting that he was a homosexual.

[3] The award, equivalent to £235,000 in 2023, was the largest libel settlement for any case in British legal history to that date.

[1] The libel action related to an article Connor wrote describing Liberace as

Everything that he, she and it can ever want... a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love.

Liberace again denied that he was homosexual and, during court depositions in 1984, he insisted that Thorson was never his lover.