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Entertainer Carol Burnett talks to media about her libel suit against the National Enquirer



Entertainer Carol Burnett talks to media about her libel suit against the National Enquirer

Entertainer Carol Burnett answers questions in the press room at the Superior Courthouse in Los Angeles on March 21, 1981, after she was awarded $1.6 million in her libel case against the National Enquirer. She had sued after the supermarket tabloid printed a story in 1976 implying she was drunk in a Washington restaurant. (UPI Photo/John Barr/Files)

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