Vicki Belo loses libel case she filed vs legal rights advocate
07/28/2011An Antipolo regional trial court has dismissed a libel complaint filed by “plastic surgeon to the stars” Dr. Vicki Belo against noted legal rights advocate, lawyer Argee Guevarra, who questioned Belo’s qualifications and professional affiliations in postings in the popular social Internet network site Facebook.
Judge Mary Josephine Lazaro dismissed the criminal libel case against Guevarra who was the former counsel for Josephine Norcio who, Guevarra said, underwent a hydrogel butt augmentation in Belo’s clinic.
Norcio reportedly nearly died as a result of the subsequent infection.
Guevarra launched a Facebook information campaign against Belo in his private Facebook account among his circle of friends, exposing Belo and describing her as “a quack doctor” and who he said is not even a member of the Philippine College of Surgeons, Philippine Dermatological Society and the Philippine Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20110728met3.html
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