Rebecca Vardy will have to pay more than £1.5m in legal fees to Coleen Rooney after a judge found she destroyed evidence in the Wagatta Christie High Court defamation battle.
Vardy, 40, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, lost her defamation claim against Rooney this year when a judge ruled that a social media post accusing her of leaking information to the press was essentially true.
The case was brought over a row that began in 2019 when Rooney, 36, whose husband Wayne attended the trial, said she carried out a months-long “special operation” and accused Vardy of leaking “false stories” about her private life on The sun.
In July, after a two-week trial at the Crown Courts
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