Which Daily Mirror journalist wrote for many years under the pen name of Cassandra?
Liberace v Daily Mirror Liberace v Daily Mirror Liberace v Daily Mirror is a 1959 English legal case in which the American entertainer Liberace sued the "Daily Mirror" columnist William Connor for libel after Connor, who while writing under the pen name Cassandra, published an article strongly hinting that he was a homosexual. At the time homosexuality was illegal in the United Kingdom. Liberace was successful in the action and was awarded £8,000. The award was the largest libel settlement for any case in British legal history. "The Argus" has described the case as "one of the most sensational libel trials of the century".
The Daily Mirror (Sydney) McGuinness, father of journalist P. P. McGuinness, also played a role in launching the newspaper. Charles Buttrose, father of Ita Buttrose (launch editor of "Cleo" magazine and subsequently editor of "The Australian Women's Weekly"), was a journalist on, and then the editor of, "The Daily Mirror". The Daily Mirror (Sydney) The Daily Mirror was an afternoon paper established by Ezra Norton in Sydney, Australia in 1941, gaining a licence from the Minister for Trade and Customs, Eric Harrison, despite wartime paper rationing. In October 1958, Norton and his partners sold his newspapers to the Fairfax Group, which immediately sold it