Keira Knightley has won a landmark case against a British Tabloid, netting a whopping $6,000 settlement, thanks to a story that suggested she was at fault for the death of a wafer-thin teenager suffering from anorexia. The odd-talking cutey also convinced the court that the story also falsely reported that she herself suffers from the same eating disorder. Silly tabloid, she might merely be bulimic.

Last January, the Daily Mail ran a picture of Knightley in a bikini with the headline: “If pictures like this one of Keira carried a health warning, my darling daughter might have lived.”

Knightley’s lawyer said the article had been interpreted to mean that she was personally endorsing eating disorders, and somehow directly responsible for the death of the 19-year-old Sophie Mazurek. In addition to the historically cheap settlement, attorneys for the Daily Mail admitted that she, “Does not have an eating disorder, and [that they have] misled the public.”

Knightley will donate the settlement to the eating disorder and mental illness charity Beat.

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