Cameron Diaz has an important lesson for you the next time you hear about celebrity infidelity: don’t believe the hype. And it looks like the National Enquirer is about to fork over a whole lot of money for telling tales about her.

Long story short: Cameron Diaz kisses a friend goodbye, and the National Enquirer manufactures a whole story about a raging affair between her and the friend. They even went so far as to tell the friend’s wife that he was going to leave her for Diaz. And not a word of it was true, so she sued them.

The two parties appear to be close to a settlement, and I’m sure the amount of money the Enquirer is going to have to pony up won’t be splashed across their front page the way the original story was…but it should be…

I’m all about celebrity gossip (obviously!) but to me there’s a bright line between telling an inconvenient truth and just making up a story out of whole cloth and intentionally trying to break up someone’s marriage to sell a few issues. What the Enquirer did was mean-spirited and whatever they have to pay probably still won’t be enough to make up for it…

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