Editing Jeffrey Archer (section)

===''Daily Star'' libel case===
Shortly after ''The News of the World'' story broke, rival tabloid the ''[[Daily Star (United Kingdom)|Daily Star]]'' ran a story alleging Archer had paid for sex with Coghlan, something ''The News of the World'' had been careful to avoid stating directly.<ref name=Davies/> Archer responded by suing the ''Daily Star''.<ref name=defamation>{{cite web|title=Jeffrey Archer v Daily Star (1987): You could write a book about it|url=http://defamationwatch.com.au/?page_id=301|website=www.defamationwatch.com.au|access-date=22 December 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223055432/http://defamationwatch.com.au/?page_id=301|archive-date=23 December 2015}}</ref> The case came to court in July 1987. Explaining the payment to Coghlan as the action of a philanthropist rather than that of a guilty man, Archer won the case and was awarded £500,000 damages.<ref name=Rawnsley>{{cite news|last1=Rawnsley|first1=Andrew|title=Archer wins record £500,000 damages|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1987/jul/25/archer.politics|access-date=22 December 2015|work=The Guardian|date=25 July 1987|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223131420/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1987/jul/25/archer.politics|archive-date=23 December 2015}}</ref> Archer stated he would donate the money to charity.<ref name=Sengupta>{{cite news|last1=Sengupta|first1=Kim|title=Archer accused of failing to give libel win to charity|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/archer-accused-of-failing-to-give-libel-win-to-charity-9188636.html|access-date=22 December 2015|work=The Independent|date=28 June 2001|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223080308/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/archer-accused-of-failing-to-give-libel-win-to-charity-9188636.html|archive-date=23 December 2015}}</ref> However, this case would ultimately result in Archer's final exit from front-line politics some years later. The description the judge ([[Bernard Caulfield (judge)|Mr Justice Caulfield]]) gave of Mrs Archer in his jury instructions included: "Remember [[Mary Archer]] in the witness-box. Your vision of her probably will never disappear. Has she elegance? Has she fragrance? Would she have, without the strain of this trial, radiance? How would she appeal? Has she had a happy married life? Has she been able to enjoy, rather than endure, her husband Jeffrey?" The judge then went on to say of Jeffrey Archer: "Is he in need of cold, unloving, rubber-insulated sex in a seedy hotel round about quarter to one on a Tuesday morning after an evening at the Caprice?"<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1388341.stm|date=14 June 2001|title=Archer marriage under spotlight|access-date=1 December 2007|publisher=BBC|location=London, UK|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523055745/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1388341.stm|archive-date=23 May 2010}}</ref>

Although the Archers claimed they were a normal, happily married couple, by this time, according to the journalist [[Adam Raphael]], Jeffrey and Mary Archer were living largely separate lives. The editor of the ''Daily Star'', [[Lloyd Turner (journalist)|Lloyd Turner]], was sacked six weeks after the trial by the paper's owner [[Lord Stevens of Ludgate]].<ref name="DTI">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1447018.stm|title=Star demands £2.2m from Archer|work=BBC News|date=19 July 2001|location=London|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040718112616/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1447018.stm|archive-date=18 July 2004}}</ref> Adam Raphael soon afterwards found proof that Archer had perjured himself at the trial, but his superiors were unwilling to take the risk of a potentially costly libel case.<ref name=Raphael>{{cite news|last1=Raphael|first1=Adam|title=His guilt was writ large|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jul/22/conservatives.archer|access-date=23 December 2015|work=The Observer|date=22 July 2001|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223151801/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jul/22/conservatives.archer|archive-date=23 December 2015}}</ref> ''The News of the World'' later settled out-of-court with Archer, acknowledging they, too, had libelled him.<ref name=Rawnsley/>