A Romanian television presenter has lost a defamation case against a surgeon and has been forced to pay compensation to him after making a joke on-air that he was a tax dodger.
Daily Mail is reporting that Simona Trasca, 34, known as ‘Romania’s Pamela Anderson’, said in an interview on national television that her latest boob job was so cheap her surgeon could not have paid tax on it.
Plastic surgeon Marek Valcu claimed Ms Trasca’s comments were defamatory and sued the model and presenter.
Ms Trasca had made the remark as part of a joke about her latest boob job saying: ‘I got such a small bill for such a big job, in fact it was only 2000 lei (£363).’
She had then admitted that the course she had actually paid the equivalent of £3,000, which was probably a fairer reflection of the value of her new assets.
Court ruling in the defamation case
A local court ruled in favour of Dr Valcu, accepted that the comments could be regarded as defamatory and ordered her to pay compensation. As well as paying Dr Valcu £1,500, Ms Trasca he will also have to take adverts in the main Romanian newspapers pointing out that her statement was not correct.
It is not the first time Dr Valcu is involved in a scandal with one of his patients over their breast enlargements.
In May last year, TV host Oana Zavoranu tried to blackmail him by saying that she can start a media defamation campaign against him because she was unhappy with her seventh boob-job.
She had threatened to tell media that the doctor did illegal plastic surgery work funded by taxpayer money.
However, her plan backfired when he called the police and she was caught while taking £7,000 in marked money from him.