Crying All the Way to the Bank
Liberace V Cassandra and the Daily Mirror
famous Trials)

Liberace sued for libel when Cassandra described him in the Daily Mirror as \"this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love... the biggest sentimental vomit of all time... a preposterous clown.\" Read by lawyers as an example of brilliant advocacy, and by journalists as a lesson in getting their facts straight.