Sorrell's Suit: A War of Words

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Testifying against Marco Benatti, WPP chief Martin Sorrell last week in open court in London accused his former employee of disseminating a “vicious” image of him and a female executive and branding them “the mad dwarf and the nympho schizo.”

Sorrell, who is suing for libel and breach of privacy, claims Benatti, his former Italy manager, launched a smear campaign against him in an effort to discredit and undermine his reputation.

Sorrell charges that Benatti and an associate, Marco Tinelli, circulated defamatory remarks about Sorrell and WPP Italy executive Daniela Weber on a series of Internet blogs.



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