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If most celebrities do require these NDA’s how have the tabloids managed to stay in business for so long?

I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on t.v., but...

I imagine that a majority of the tabloid articles are so impossibly ridiculous ("Portland Woman Reveals: The Ghost of Michael Jackson Fathered My Baby!") that only the hopelessly gullible give them more than a passing glance, and taking the respective tabloid to court would only "fan the flames" (the infamous "Streissand Effect").

Secondly, in such cases where a 48-pt headline screams some libelous claim on pg. 1, the main body of the article (which might consist of just two little paragraphs, buried back on pg. 8) will probably itself equivocate and/or backpedal a lot ("I was told by the doctors that I was barren, but after praying to a poster of Michael Jackson - made-up as a zombie, from his "Thriller" video - for a month, I was able to conceive!") and thus render the suit moot.

Thirdly, fourthly, fifthly... Just use your powers of reasoning, simple commonsense, and your imagination a little, will yuh?

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