The Daily Telegraph’s Spy column may have drawn a lot of attention on November 28 with its “Channel Left Fuming,” but it surely also succeeding in losing a “substantial” undisclosed sum, paying damages to Nicole Kidman, the central figure of the article.

The actress, who has been the image of Channel No.5 since 2003, received a formal apology at London's High Court and significant damages, after the paper published an article suggesting that Kidman betrayed her contract with Channel by promoting a rival perfume.

The article that engendered Kidman to sue Telegraph Media Group Ltd claimed that the Australian actress, while promoting her recently released film “The Golden Compass” openly promoted also her “favorite perfume” Jo Malone. The press article also reported that she “'kept dabbing the Jo Malone perfume on whenever she had a moment,” thus being presented as “unprofessional” and “disloyal”, as her solicitor, John Kelly, told judge Mr Justice David Eady.

Kelly told London's High Court that the Telegraph acknowledged that the story was false and had discovered that their source had made it up.

Apart from the formal apology, The Daily Telegraph agreed to pay undisclosed damages which Nicole Kidman promised to donate to UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women.

“Through me the defendant sincerely apologises to the claimant for the distress and embarrassment this article has caused. It accepts that the allegations are untrue and ought never to have been published,” David Price, newspaper’s solicitor-advocate, said for the Telegraph.