As of March 6, 2012, 71 people (65 women and six men) were listed, the youngest being 110-year-old Jeanne Rannou of France (born on Sept. 14, 1901). Each person on the GRG's list must produce documents proving their longevity, which are then verified by GRG claims investigators.
defamation (defÂ´ÉmÄÂ´shÉn), n the act of detracting from the reputation of another. The offense of injuring a person's reputation by false and malicious statements.
Definition of libel 1: Libel is the written act of defamation, vs. slander, the oral act of defamation. Definition of libel 2: use of print or pictures to harm someone's reputation. Until 1964, a person could prove that they had been libeled simply by showing that the statements in question were incorrect.