Supermodel wins damages over French Playboy images

Dutch supermodel Lara Stone has won “significant” damages from French Playboy after the magazine published unauthorised photographs of her, lawyers said yesterday.

Ms Stone, 26, who is married to Little Britain star David Walliams, 39, will donate the money to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

In a statement released by her law firm Schillings, the fashion model said: “No woman wants photos of them to be published in Playboy without permission.

“I’m very pleased to have won the case, although,of course, I would rather not have had to take legal action at all.”

Ms Stone instructed Schillings in London and Asmar & Assayag in Paris to sue French Playboy and American photographer Greg Lotus after the images appeared in the magazine in June.

The case was heard in a court in Paris under French image rights legislation. Playboy has also been ordered to publish a prominent legal statement in the next edition of the magazine confirming the court has found it has infringed Ms Stone’s image rights, Schillings said.