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LONDON WPP Group CEO Martin Sorrell today settled a high-profile U.K. libel lawsuit, accepting about $236,000 in damages from former WPP Italy chief Marco Benatti and Marco Tinelli.
Benatti is also the founder of Italian media firm FullSix; Tinelli is its CEO.
Sorrell accused Benatti and Tinelli of generating libelous claims posted on an Internet blog, as well as disseminating an offensive j-peg image of Sorrell with Daniela Weber, WPP Italy COO, who had a past personal relationship with Sorrell.
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