Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is no longer desperately waiting for an apology. Paparazzi agency X17 has issued a mea culpa, admitting they posted fake stories on their blog site about Longoria's husband, Tony Parker, and his alleged affair with French model Alexandra Paressant.
The statement reads, "In December 2007, X17online.com published over ten articles concerning Tony Parker and a woman named Alexandra Paressant. Various articles asserted that, after Mr. Parker was introduced to Ms. Paressant by Thierry Henry at this wedding to Eva Longoria, Mr. Parker engaged in sexual relations with Ms. Paressant. Since the publication of these articles, X17online.com and X17, Inc. have discovered that Mr. Parker has never met with, or spoken to, Ms. Paressant nor has he ever had sexual relations with her. X17online.com and X17, Inc. regret having been misled by Ms. Paressant and her representatives and apologize to Mr. Parker for any damage or inconvenience this may have caused him or his wife."
Rumours of the affair hit the Web last December, just five months after Longoria and Parker wed in a star-studded affair in France. The San Antonio Spurs star quickly launched a lawsuit against X17 for $40 million US, seeking damages for defamation and invasion of privacy.
Longoria defended Parker as soon as the affair allegations broke, telling People magazine "Tony has been nothing short of the perfect husband." She has since become the paparazzi's biggest critic, publicly deriding glossies who publish false rumours about celebrities. You know, when she's not too busy parodying Paris Hilton's sex tape for FunnyorDie.com, or pretending to have an affair with BFF Mario Lopez for Ashton Kutcher's new reality show, Pop Fiction.
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