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Coleen Rooney’s lawyers for her Wagatha Christie battle with Rebekah Vardy included dinner, drinks and mini bar charges at a luxury hotel in legal fees totalling more than £1.8 million, the High Court has been told.
Ms Vardy, 42, lost her high-profile libel claim against fellow WAG Ms Rooney, 38, in July 2022 when Mrs Justice Steyn ruled that her viral social media post accusing Mrs Vardy of leaking her private information to the press was “substantially true”.
In an order from October the same year, the judge ruled that Mrs Vardy, the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, should pay 90 per cent of the costs incurred by Mrs Rooney, who is the wife of former England captain Wayne Rooney, with an initial £800,000 then ordered …