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This 90s Rock Singer Once Forced a Newspaper To Donate to Charity as Apology for Scandalous Headline About Her

VICE·Lauren Boisvert·27 days ago
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In the spring of 1996, Dolores O’Riordan accepted a public apology and more than $6,000 from The Daily Sport . An often explicit U.K. tabloid notorious for fabricating scandalous celebrity news, they previously ran a headline claiming The Cranberries singer had gone commando on stage at a show in Hamburg. The Cranberries played Hamburg in July 1995 during their No Need To Argue World Tour. They’d been on the road since October 1994 and had multiple legs scheduled into August 1995. Seven months later, they embarked on the Free To Decide World Tour in late April 1996. That tour, however, would be cut short by September due to O’Riordan’s knee injury. Videos by VICE Hell hath no fury like Dolores O’Riordan scorned But just weeks before The Cranberries were scheduled to go on tour, The Daily Sport issued its public apology. O’Riordan’s lawyer, John Kelly, told the High Court that the false headline was “untrue, offensive and distressing,” according to an April 1996 report from The Irish Times .…

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