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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Israeli girlfriend has filed a lawsuit against her country's largest newspaper.
According to the New York Daily News, model Bar Refaeli is suing Yedioth Ahronoth for libel after a report claimed that she was happy to have escaped national service.
She is alleged to have said in an interview: "I am not sorry for not serving in the army because I profited in a big way...Why is it good to die for our country? Isn't it better to live in New York?"
However, her lawyer Dror Arad Alon dismissed the quotes in a letter to the newspaper, saying his client was "wickedly manipulated by [its] reporter and editors".
He went on to say that her comments were disseminated throughout the media, "representing [her] in a ludicrous and poisonous way, essentially abandoning her to public fury for no reason".
Reports last year claimed that the 22-year-old had married an older man one week before she was due to enlist for military service.
According to the New York Daily News, model Bar Refaeli is suing Yedioth Ahronoth for libel after a report claimed that she was happy to have escaped national service.
She is alleged to have said in an interview: "I am not sorry for not serving in the army because I profited in a big way...Why is it good to die for our country? Isn't it better to live in New York?"
However, her lawyer Dror Arad Alon dismissed the quotes in a letter to the newspaper, saying his client was "wickedly manipulated by [its] reporter and editors".
He went on to say that her comments were disseminated throughout the media, "representing [her] in a ludicrous and poisonous way, essentially abandoning her to public fury for no reason".
Reports last year claimed that the 22-year-old had married an older man one week before she was due to enlist for military service.
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