Harrison Carroll industry for 43 years, writing his last column in 1969, after which he retired. His column was syndicated by the Central Press Association to 48 newspapers. He had feuds with the leading gossip columnists of the day, including Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons and his fellow Herald columnist Jimmy Starr: all of them appeared as themselves in the 1947 crime movie "The Corpse Came C.O.D.". Beginning in 1967 until he retired, Carroll's main place of business was the private, members-only Beverly Hills discotheque-"cum"-restaurant Daisy, a hang-out for the younger, hipper stars like Paul Newman when he was in L.A. He created
Gossip columnist printed falsehoods about a celebrity with “reckless disregard” for the truth. A celebrity suing a newspaper for libel must now prove that the paper published the falsehood with actual malice, or with deliberate knowledge that the statement was both incorrect and defamatory. Moreover, the court ruled that only factual misrepresentation is libel, not expression of opinion. Thus if a gossip columnist writes that they “...think that Celebrity X is an idiot,” the columnist does not face a risk of being sued for libel. On the other hand, if the columnist invents an allegation that “...Celebrity X is a wife beater,”