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The British actor-comedian wrote and starred in the drama following the hunt for King Richard III\u2019s remains in 2012. But a University of Leicester<\/a> employee named Richard Taylor<\/a> later sued Coogan \u2014 as well as his production outfit Baby Cow and Path\u00e9 Productions<\/a> \u2014 over what he called a defamatory, \u201cmisogynistic\u201d and \u201cweasel-like\u201d portrayal. Taylor, then the deputy registrar of the University of Leicester, was played in the film by English actor Lee Ingleby<\/a>.<\/p>\n In June, a U.K. judge ruled that the film portrayed the claimant having \u201cknowingly misrepresented facts to the media and the public\u201d about the discovery, and as being \u201csmug, unduly dismissive and patronizing,\u201d which could be defamatory. The case was set to go to trial.<\/p>\n But on Monday, it was announced Taylor was successful…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steve Coogan has settled a libel claim over 2022\u2019s The Lost King after a university academic sued over his depiction in the film. The British actor-comedian wrote and starred in the drama following the hunt for King Richard III\u2019s remains in 2012. But a University of Leicester employee named Richard Taylor later sued Coogan \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2118595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2118594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Steve-Coogan-Settles-Libel-Claim-Over-\u2018The-Lost-King-Academic.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118596,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118594\/revisions\/2118596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}