A Georgia jury awarded $100,000 to a woman who says she was defamed by a character in the book "The Red Hat Club" had a strong mix of her own traits and other false characteristics.
She and the author were childhood friends. The character in the books bares her resemblance, has her same career, even has the same conniving second husband. But, the author portrays the character as a drunk who engages in casual sex. Something the plaintiff claims is completely false.
Typically, this would be dismissed as a writer's use of fiction, but Georgia law says that "modeling a fictional character after a real person is a strict liability offense."
They awarded her $100,000, but not the $1 million her lawyer asked for.
Here's the whole article..
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/jury_awards_100k_to_woman_who_says_fictional_character_defamed_her/
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