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Songstress Lily Allen is taking the Daily Mail to court over an online article that included pictures of the singer’s home. The piece appeared on the paper’s Mail Online website in September, according to the Guardian, and declared “Pregnant Lily spends ?3m on stunning Cotswold home.”

Allen is claiming invasion of privacy because the site published photos of her home, as well as copyright infringement for those images.

Law firm Atkins Thomson is acting on Allen’s behalf, and released a statement saying: “We have today issued proceedings on behalf of Lily Allen against Associated Newspapers [Daily Mail's parent company] for copyright infringement and breach of confidence. This action is in relation to an article published in the Mail Online on 14 September 2010.”

This is not the first time the “LDN” singer has sought damages from a news source.
In October she won damages from So Foot because of an article published in the French sports magazine which claimed Allen had referred to Victoria Beckham as a “monster” and to Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole as “stupid and superficial.”

Allen also received ?10,000 in damages – as well as an apology – from The Sun in September 2009 when the paper repeated some of the quotes from the So Foot article.

More recently the singer was involved in a spat with Daily Mail journalist Katie Nicholl after the writer made the claim that Lily and boyfriend Sam Cooper were planning to “ease” the grief of the singer’s recent miscarriage by getting married.

Allen responded to the column via Twitter, writing that Nicholl was a “c***.” When the journalist threatened to call her lawyer over the tweet, Allen amended it to read: “Katie Nicholl I THINK you’re a c***, leave me out of your sh**ty column, you know nothing about the intimate details of my life.”

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