Steve Coogan to pay ‘substantial damages’ to academic defamed in Richard III film
- Posted on October 27, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Steve Coogan to pay ‘substantial damages’ to academic defamed in Richard III film

Case had been due to go to trial after judge ruled 2022’s The Lost King, which Coogan co-wrote, portrayed claimant as ‘smug, unduly dismissive and patronising’