Brooke Shields & The National Enquirer Reach Agreement Over Mother Incident

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FIRST PUBLISHED: June 7, 2009 1:12 PM EDT
LAST UPDATED: June 7, 2009 1:28 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES, Calif. --

Brooke Shields has settled with the National Enquirer after the tabloid’s reporters allegedly checked the star’s mother out of her nursing home, People reported.

“Two weeks ago, Brooke Shields was forced to make a public disclosure about her mother, Teri Shields’s health, when we learned that Mrs. Shields had been taken out of a care facility by a reporter and photographer working for the National Enquirer and I was told that the National Enquirer was going to print information about her condition and whereabouts,” Gerald B. Lefcourt, Brooke’s attorney, claimed in a statement to the mag.

Teri, 75, has dementia and was reportedly found next door at a restaurant in Old Tappan, New Jersey, later that day talking to a reporter.

However, Lefcourt added that the two parties had come to an agreement.

“I am very pleased to report that [the] National Enquirer was prevailed upon not to publish a story. Further, it has or will be apologizing publicly. Finally, it has agreed to make a generous donation to further research on dementia and to encourage others to do so,” Lefcourt said.

Previously, Brooke told the mag she intended to “take every lawful action against all who were involved or who authorized this despicable act.”

The National Enquirer responded to the allegations at the time with their own statement to People.

“A freelance reporter who has known Teri Shields for more than 10 years visited her Thursday at the assisted living facility where Brooke says she moved her. Teri asked the reporter to take her out to lunch and to run some errands. The freelance reporter then got permission from the facility to do so,” a rep for the Enquirer told the mag.

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