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Rebekah Vardy now has to pay Coleen Rooney’s significant legal costs from the Wagatha Christie trial (Pictures: Rex)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rebekah Vardy<\/a> has agreed to pay almost \u00a31.4 million of Coleen Rooney<\/a>\u2019s legal costs following their Wagatha Christie<\/a> court case.<\/p>\n

In 2019 Coleen, 39, accused Rebekah Vardy, 43, of leaking fake stories about her private life to the press.<\/p>\n

After months of detective work and a \u2018sting operation\u2019, she shared the infamous post which declared: \u2018It\u2019s\u2026. Rebekah Vardy\u2019s account.\u2019<\/p>\n

The wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy<\/a> vehemently denied the claims and went on to sue Coleen for libel.<\/p>\n

However, in 2022 a High Court judge found Coleen\u2019s post to be \u2018substantially true\u2019.<\/p>\n

Nearly three years on Rebekah has agreed to pay Coleen\u2019s legal costs that racked up during the proceedings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Coleen infamously accused Rebekah of leaking stories about her to the press in 2019 (Picture: Dan Kitwood\/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rebekah lost the court case that she started (Picture: Dan Kitwood\/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an order from October 2022, the judge ruled that Vardy should pay 90% of Rooney\u2019s costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A specialist costs court had previously been told Coleen, the wife of former England striker Wayne Rooney<\/a>, ran up a legal bill totalling more than \u00a31.8 million after she successfully defended Rebekah\u2019s High Court claim.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the\u00a0specialist costs court was told Rebekah had agreed to pay \u00a31,190,000 of Coleen’s legal bill, and that Coleen was asking for a further \u00a3315,000 in ‘assessment costs’.<\/p>\n

Costs Judge Mark Whalan said that it was ‘reasonable and proportionate’ for Rebekah to pay \u00a3212,266.20 of Coleen’s assessment costs, inclusive of VAT but before interest, on top of the \u00a31.19m settlement, totalling at least \u00a31,402,266.20.<\/p>\n

The judge said that he was ‘generally happy’ that the outcome was a ‘commercially satisfactory conclusion for both sides’, but that there had been ‘extraordinary expenditure of costs by the parties.<\/p>\n

‘I do mean it when I say that I hope that this is the end of a long and unhappy road,’ he said.<\/p>\n

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