Rebekah Vardy has agreed to pay nearly £ 1.2 million to the legal costs of Colen Rooney after he had won the controversial Wagatha Christie-Maderpak against her, a judge was told.
Earlier, a specialist cost court was told that Mrs. Rooney, the wife of the former striker of England Wayne Rooney, resulted in a legal bill of a total of more than £ 1.8 million after successfully defended Mrs. Vardy's claim in 2022.
The controversial lawsuit took place after Mrs. Rooney Mrs Vardy accused on social media in 2019 of leaking her private information to the press.
Mrs. Vardy, wife of Leicester City -striker Jamie Vardy, tried in vain to sue Mrs. Rooney in a defamation fight in 2022 who fascinated some parts of the audience and was later dramatized for TV.
After Mrs. Vardy lost the fight, the court ordered her to pay 90% of Mrs. Rooney's costs, including a first payment of £ 800,000.
In written entries for a hearing on Tuesday, Mrs. Vardy's lawyer, Juliet Wells, said that Mrs Rooney's total statutory account was now arranged at almost £ 1.2 million.
Mrs Wells continued that Mrs. Rooney now claims additional “assessment costs” of more than £ 300,000, which she describes as “coarse disproportionate” and must be covered on “no more than £ 100,000”.
Lawyers for Mrs. Rooney said in written entries that Mrs. Vardy was “the author of her own accident” and that she “thought about her approach”.
In her written entries, Mrs Wells said that the original £ 1.8 million of Mrs. Rooney was “substandard” and the costs of the letter from the press “and others for which she” had no right “included.
She claimed that the bill could have been arranged earlier if Mrs. Rooney was “more constructive”.
Mrs Wells said that Mrs. Vardy had offered in August 2024 to regulate the legal account for £ 1.1 million, excluding interest and assessment costs, which was “out of hand” rejected.
She said: “Mrs. Vardy went to considerable effort to negotiate the bill, even though it is taken by a lack of information and cooperation of Mrs. Rooney's camp.
“The tone of Mrs. Rooney, on the other hand, was uninventional and often combative when it came to settlement negotiations.”
Robin Dunne, for Mrs. Rooney, said in written entries that Mrs. Vardy was a “drop food”.
He said that Mrs. Rooney's lawyers had to complete “extra work”, because “lurid headlines arising from briefings from Mrs. Vardy's camp dominated the press in the days before and during the hearings” in the case.
He said, “There will rarely be a case in which it can be said with more strength that Mrs. Vardy is the author of her own accident.”