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In most instances, there are no real damages for plaintiffs to claim in gay libel suits. Farah, who ended up not filing suit after Wikipedia fixed his entry, might have been angry that he "spent hours" on the site trying to change his bio. But being the butt of a joke hardly constitutes real damage. Cruise claimed that false allegations of homosexuality subjected him to ridicule, and he won his case by default because the defendant couldn't pay for a lawyer. But speculation about a star's sexuality—including ridicule—is par for the course for a celebrity. It's increasingly hard to imagine Cruise suffering economic harm, by losing a film role, for example, because someone claimed he is gay.
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