<ul class="summary-list"><li>The high profile "<keyword id="13967782" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wagatha-christie" source="Orion">Wagatha Christie</keyword>" libel trial between the wives of two UK soccer stars concludes Thursday.</li><li>On the trial's final day, defendant <keyword id="13967783" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="coleen-rooney" source="Orion">Coleen Rooney</keyword>'s team raised a 300-year-old court ruling.</li></ul><p>A 300-year-old legal ruling could prove key in the outcome of a high-profile High Court libel trial between the wives of two British soccer stars.</p><p>The case, dubbed "Wagatha Christie," pits <keyword id="13967781" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rebekah-vardy" source="Orion">Rebekah Vardy</keyword>, wife of England and Leicester star Jamie Vardy, against Coleen Rooney, wife of England's highest-ever goalscorer, Wayne Rooney.</p><p>Vardy is seeking to disprove Rooney's claims that Vardy leaked stories about Rooney to UK tabloids.</p><p>Rooney made the assertion in a now-infamous social media post from 2019, in which she claimed to have conducted an elaborate sting operation using her private Instagram account to find the source of systematic leaks about her personal life.</p><p>Rooney said she planted fake stories and blocked all but one person, Vardy, from seeing them, hoping to prove that any related stories to be published were Vardy's work.</p><p>Vardy has strongly denied the allegations that she leaked stories to the press about Rooney, <a href="https://www.insider.com/rebekah-vardy-coleen-rooney-libel-over-instagram-leak-scandal-2020-6">and in 2020 sued, accusing Rooney of defaming her</a>.</p><p>A trial began in London last week and concluded Thursday. To win the trial, Rooney needed to prove to a judge that Vardy was behind the leaked stories, or prove that making the allegation against Vardy was in the interest of the British public.</p><p>Rooney and Vardy have aired a significant amount of dirty laundry during the seven-day-long trial, but a key argument of the defence is the claim that Vardy's agent, Caroline Watt, may have sought to destroy evidence, which the defence believes may have proved Vardy was the leaker.</p><p>Watt's phone, containing messages between her and Vardy, was dropped in the sea while she was on a boat in Scotland in August 2021. Early in the trial, Rooney's barrister David Sherborne described the phone as being in "Davy Jones' Locker," a reference to which Vardy replied: "Who's Davy Jones?"</p><p>Watt claims she dropped her phone by accident after the boat hit a wave, while Rooney's team argue that it was a deliberate move designed to "cover up incriminating evidence," <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/19/rebekah-vardys-agent-dropped-phone-in-sea-to-hide-evidence-trial-hears">per a Guardian report of proceedings.</a></p><div type="image" title="Wife of Jamie Vardy of England Rebekah Vardy looks on during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia group G match between England and Panama at Nizhny Novgorod Stadium" height="1000" width="2000" msid="91671453" hostid="261"></div><p>Rooney's team admit that they cannot prove Watt deliberately threw her phone overboard, but have pointed to a legal ruling from 1722 regarding the value of lost evidence, the Guardian reports.</p><p><a href="http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/EngLegalHist/ArmorieDelamirie">The ruling, Armory v Delamirie,</a> concerned a chimney-sweep — Armory — who discovered a bejeweled ring while working and took it to a jeweler — Delamirie — to have it valued. During the valuation, the jeweler's apprentice removed the precious stones from the ring socket and gave Armory an offer for the stones, which he refused, asking instead for the ring to be returned. The apprentice did so, but without the precious stones, leading Armory to sue. </p><p>While the case largely concerned property rights, it also set a precedent for judgments on the value of missing evidence in English law. The judge ruled in Armory's favor, saying that given the stones were missing, he was owed the value of the most expensive stones that could have fit into the socket.</p><p>In the case of Rooney and Vardy, Rooney's team cites the ruling, saying that the missing evidence in this case — the messages on Watt's phone — should be considered to be of the highest possible value to the case.</p><p>"One can only imagine how badly [Vardy's] position would look were the court to have access to what she was able to successfully delete. What remains cannot be anything other than the tip of the iceberg," Sherborne said, citing messages which were not lost, in which <a href="https://www.insider.com/wagatha-christie-trial-text-messages-rebekah-vardy-coleen-rooney-2022-5">Vardy variously called Rooney a "cunt," a "stupid cow," and a "bitch."</a></p><p>The case concluded Thursday, with a judgment expected at some point later in 2022.</p>

Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney's blockbuster 'Wagatha Christie' libel case could rest on a 300-year-old ruling about stolen jewelry

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A trove of text messages were submitted as evidence in the so-called "<keyword id="13967782" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wagatha-christie" source="Orion">Wagatha Christie</keyword>" trial.</li><li>They show <keyword id="13967781" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rebekah-vardy" source="Orion">Rebekah Vardy</keyword> discussing leaking stories to the press with her agent, Caroline Watt.</li></ul><p>Lawyers gave their final evidence in a high-stakes libel trial in London on Tuesday, which pits the wives of two former England soccer players against each other.</p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/coleen-rooney-vs-rebekah-vardy-biggest-moments-wagatha-christie-trial-2022-5">Rebekah Vardy is suing Coleen Rooney,</a> seeking to disprove Rooney's claims that Vardy leaked stories about Rooney to UK tabloids.</p><p>Rooney, the wife of England's highest-ever goalscorer Wayne Rooney, made the allegation in a 2019 social media post after conducting an elaborate sting operation on her private Instagram page.</p><p>She said she planted fake stories and blocked all but one person, Vardy, from seeing them, hoping to prove that any related stories to be published were Vardy's work.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ZHjyjBhSV" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by <keyword id="13967783" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="coleen-rooney" source="Orion">Coleen Rooney</keyword> (@coleen_rooney)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></p></div></blockquote><p>The sting earned Rooney the nickname "Wagatha Christie," a portmanteau of the detective novelist Agatha Christie and the term "WAG," the acronym for wives and girlfriends of England soccer players.</p><p>Vardy has staunchly denied the allegations that she leaked stories to the press about Rooney, <a href="https://www.insider.com/rebekah-vardy-coleen-rooney-libel-over-instagram-leak-scandal-2020-6">and in 2020 sued, accusing Rooney of defaming her</a>.</p><p>After months of preliminary hearings, a seven-day libel trial began at London's High Court last week.</p><p>To win the trial, Rooney needs to prove to a judge that Vardy was behind the leaked stories, or prove that making the allegation against Vardy was in the interest of the British public.</p><p>Lawyers for Rooney effectively admitted that they do not have concrete proof Vardy was the leaker, with her barrister David Sherborn saying on the opening day: "In essence, this is a detective story, and like any good detective story, you never find a person standing over the body with a smoking gun."</p><p>Sherborn quizzed Vardy for several days on a trove of salacious information, including a 2004 interview Vardy gave a tabloid newspaper in which she discussed intimately a sexual encounter she had with pop singer Peter Andre.</p><p>The key focus of Rooney's defense, however, was a series of text messages between Vardy and her agent, Caroline Watt, discussing Rooney and a number of tabloid stories about her,. The pair also discussed attempts to leak stories about the teammates of Vardy's husband Jamie.</p><p>Transcripts have not been published online, but <a href="https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1526592224154341378?s=20&amp;t=x6sC-qVm81Q2yBhYYBvhfQ">journalists from The Guardian</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kirkkorner/status/1526517947530887172?s=20&amp;t=2bQoCn6b34O2tCndpwecFA">Evening Standard shared screenshots</a> of key exchanges on Twitter Tuesday. Insider has not independently verified the screenshots.</p><p>Highlights from the transcripts include Vardy writing "what a cunt x" after finding out she had been blocked by Rooney on Instagram, beginning a lengthy discussion between Watt and Vardy about how to confront Rooney about the supposed slight.</p><p>"Stupid cow deserves everything she gets," Vardy adds in another message. "Hope she gets sold out massively now x."</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1526592243062251522">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote><p>The text transcripts also show an apparent acknowledgment from Watt that she leaked <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8282702/coleen-rooney-car-crash-washington-wayne-rooney/">a story to The Sun newspaper which said that Rooney had crashed her car</a>. The story, Rooney says, was one of the false flags she planted to root out the person leaking stories about her.</p><p>In the text exchanges between Watt and Vardy, Watt concluded a discussion of Rooney's Instagram story — which showed a damaged car — and the subsequent story in The Sun, with the message "It wasn't someone she trusted. It was me," seemingly referring to an earlier tweet in which Rooney had said someone on her private Instagram account was "betraying" her.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Tristan Kirk (@kirkkorner) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1526517970939396099">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Tristan Kirk (@kirkkorner) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1526517979730657280">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote><p>Other messages between Watt and Vardy showed two instances in which the pair discussed leaking stories about Jamie Vardy's Leicester City teammates to the media.</p><p>In one instance, Vardy instructed Watt to tell "someone" about winger Riyad Mahrez not turning up to training in February 2018, while in another Vardy planned to leak news to The Sun that midfielder Danny Drinkwater had been arrested for drink-driving, saying she wanted "paying" for any story published.</p><p>The latter leak did not come to fruition after The Sun said it already knew about the arrest.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1526592237605425156">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote><p>The Vardy-Rooney libel trial is due to conclude on Thursday.</p>

Texts show soccer star's wife Rebekah Vardy seemingly plotting to leak stories and insulting rival Coleen Rooney

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rebekah Vardy lost her libel case against Coleen Rooney.</li><li>The verdict brings to an end to the high-profile saga involving the wives of two top soccer stars.</li></ul><p>Rebekah Vardy lost her libel case against Coleen Rooney, bringing an end to the high-profile, yearslong saga involving the wives of two top soccer stars.</p><p>Vardy — the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy — sued Rooney — the wife of former England striker Wayne Rooney — for libel after Rooney publicly accused Vardy of leaking false stories about her personal life to the The Sun.<a href="https://www.insider.com/rebekah-vardy-coleen-rooney-libel-over-instagram-leak-scandal-2020-6"></a></p><p>In a now famous social media post in 2019, Rooney said that she had deduced Vardy was selling the stories by blocking everyone but Vardy from viewing her Instagram stories.</p><p>She then posted a number of fake stories, <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/9732351/coleen-rooney-mexico-gender-selection-baby-girl/">including one about "gender selection" treatment in Mexico,</a> and waited to see if they would appear in The Sun. She said that three false stories that only Vardy had seen ended up in the paper.</p><p>"It's ………. Rebekah Vardy's account," <a href="https://www.insider.com/rebekah-vardy-coleen-rooney-libel-over-instagram-leak-scandal-2020-6">she tweeted at the time</a>. </p><p>Karen Steyn, the presiding High Court judge, said on Friday that Rooney's post about Vardy was "substantially true" and that it was "likely" that Vardy's then-agent, Caroline Watt, gave the information to The Sun, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/entertainment-arts-62322323">the BBC reported</a>.</p><p>Steyn said the evidence "clearly shows, in my view, that Mrs Vardy knew of and condoned this behaviour, actively engaging in it by directing Ms Watt to the private Instagram account, sending her screenshots of Mrs Rooney's posts, drawing attention to items of potential interest to the press, and answering additional queries raised by the press via Ms Watt," the BBC.</p><p>Vardy said she won't be appealing the ruling, but insisted that the judge "got it wrong."</p><p>"I brought this action to vindicate my reputation and am devastated by the judge's finding," she said.</p><p>"The judge accepted that publication of Coleen's post was not in the 'public interest' and she also rejected her claim that I was the 'Secret Wag'. But as for the rest of her judgement, she got it wrong and this is something I cannot accept."</p><p>She also issued a plea to people who have been "abusing" her and her family to stop.</p><p>"As I explained in my evidence I, my family and even my unborn baby, were subjected to disgusting messages and vile abuse following Coleen's Post and these have continued even during the course of the trial," she said.</p><p>Rooney's detection work <a href="https://www.insider.com/rebekah-vardy-coleen-rooney-libel-over-instagram-leak-scandal-2020-6">earned her the nickname "Wagatha Christie,"</a> referencing the nickname for the partners of British football stars – WAGs, meaning "wives and girlfriends" — and the famous detective fiction author Agatha Christie.</p>

Rebekah Vardy loses libel case to Coleen Rooney, bringing 'Wagatha Christie' trial involving top soccer stars to an end

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d9dbfa5122bd571634a37e6-2000/pjimage%2057.jpg" border="0" alt="Rebekah Vardy and Colleen Rooney" data-mce-source="Getty" /></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Coleen Rooney said Rebekah Vardy had been leaking her "false" private Instagram stories to The Sun without permission.</li><li>Rooney, who is married to Wayne Rooney, said on Wednesday that she knew for certain which account the leaks were coming from.</li><li>"It's ... Rebekah Vardy's account," <a href="https://twitter.com/ColeenRoo/status/1181864136155828224">Rooney said</a>.</li><li>Vardy, the wife of the Leicester City star Jamie Vardy, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ZL3B0hQTZ/">denied the accusation</a> and said she was "upset" by Rooney's decision to make a public announcement, especially as she's "heavily pregnant."</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/soccer-news?r=US&amp;IR=T">Read more of our soccer stories here</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><p>Coleen Rooney may be set for a career as an investigative journalist after her detective work apparently weeded out who was leaking her "false" private Instagram stories to a British tabloid.</p><p>Rooney, the wife of the DC United forward Wayne Rooney, said on social media on Wednesday that several of her private stories, <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/9732351/coleen-rooney-mexico-gender-selection-baby-girl/">including one about "gender selection" treatment in Mexico</a>, had been sent to The Sun without her permission.</p><p>Rooney said she had identified the culprit: Rebekah Vardy, the wife of the Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/french-soccer-star-fired-after-stealing-teammates-76k-watch-2019-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">A French soccer player has been fired by his club after admitting he stole his teammate's $76,000 watch</a></em></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ZHjyjBhSV/">Rooney wrote in an Instagram post</a>: "For a few years now someone who I trusted to follow me on my personal Instagram account has been consistently informing The SUN newspaper of my private posts and stories."</p><p>She added: "To try and prove this, I came up with an idea. I blocked everyone from viewing my Instagram stories except ONE account."</p><p>Rooney said that for five months she "posted a series of false stories to see if they made their way into the Sun newspaper."</p><p>"And you know what, they did!" she said. "The story about gender selection in Mexico, the story about returning to TV and then the latest story about the basement flooding in my new house."</p><p>She added: "Now I know for certain which account / individual it's come from. I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them.</p><p>"It's ... Rebekah Vardy's account."</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kade-lovell-9-wins-10k-race-2019-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">A 9-year-old boy won a 10k race in Minnesota that he didn't even know he was competing in</a></em></p><p>Shortly after Rooney published her post, Vardy <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ZL3B0hQTZ/">responded with a post of her own</a>, denying the accusation.</p><p>"I wish you had called me if you thought this," she said. "I never speak to anyone about you as various journalists who have asked me to over the years can vouch for."</p><p>She added: "I liked you a lot Coleen &amp; I'm so upset that you have chosen to do this, especially when I'm heavily pregnant."</p><p>Vardy is consulting her legal team about the accusation, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/coleen-rooney-rebekah-vardy-twitter-instagram-stories-sun-wayne-jamie-wag-a9148631.html">her spokeswoman told The Independent</a>.</p><p>The Sun did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment regarding the "false" stories it published.</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/australian-journalist-pays-100k-for-beer-at-english-hotel-2019-9?r=US&amp;IR=T">An Australian sports journalist was accidentally charged $100,000 for a bottle of beer during a work trip to England, and he won't get his money back for over a week</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dutch-referee-accidentally-scores-goal-and-then-allows-it-to-stand-2019-9?r=US&amp;IR=T">A referee accidentally scored a goal during a Dutch soccer game, then caused outrage by refusing to disallow it</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/american-tennis-star-fined-for-pretending-to-shoot-umpire-2019-9?r=US&amp;IR=T">An American tennis player has been fined $10,000 for pointing his tennis racket like a rifle at a US Open official</a></li></ul><div>    <iframe src="//instagram.com/p/B3ZHjyjBhSV/embed/" width="540" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true">    </iframe></div><div>    <iframe src="//instagram.com/p/B3ZL3B0hQTZ/embed/" width="540" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true">    </iframe></div>

Wayne Rooney's wife cleverly worked out who was leaking her private Instagram photos by posting 'false stories' visible to only one person: Jamie Vardy's wife

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11896644" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wayne-rooney" source="Orion">Wayne Rooney</keyword> is returning to <keyword id="11979701" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mls" source="Orion">MLS</keyword> as head coach of <keyword id="13124363" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dc-united" source="Orion">DC United</keyword>, the team he played with for two seasons.</li><li><keyword id="13967783" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="coleen-rooney" source="Orion">Coleen Rooney</keyword> did not seem to enjoy her time in DC, calling it "not the best" and "behind the UK."</li></ul><p>Wayne Rooney is back in MLS and back with DC United, a move his wife is probably not too excited about.</p><p>The Manchester United legend is expected to be introduced as the next manager of DC United, <a href="https://www.espn.com/soccer/dc-united/story/4698312/source-wayne-rooney-set-to-be-new-dc-united-manager">according to several reports</a>. The move will reunite Rooney with the club he played with for two seasons after leaving the Premier League. </p><p>The move also reunites Rooney with a city his wife did not seem to enjoy the first time around, and there is already speculation that <a href="https://www.insider.com/coleen-rooney-vs-rebekah-vardy-biggest-moments-wagatha-christie-trial-2022-5">the star of the Wagatha Christie trial</a> may not join her husband in the US this time. </p><p>Rooney left DC United as a player in 2020 to join Derby County back in England as a player-manager despite having two years left on his contract in MLS. However, <a href="https://theathletic.com/news/wayne-rooney-dc-united-manager/eIZHo1EW150U/">according to Pablo Maurer of The Athletic</a>, "it was widely known, at the time, that his family were not the happiest in the DC area and were eager to return to the UK."</p><p>Later, text messages revealed during the "Wagatha Christie" trial, in which Rebekah Vardy sued Coleen Rooney for libel in the UK, showed that Coleen struggled to adjust to life in <keyword id="11932021" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="washington-dc" source="Orion">Washington DC</keyword>.</p><p>"Washington isn't the best ... nice to visit but different to live," <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11002283/Coleen-Rooney-wont-Washington-DC-Wayne.html">Rooney wrote to Vardy in 2018</a>. "Not loads for the kids to do, mostly park, hardly any soft plays and things like that. It's quite behind the UK, which I never would have thought. But we will get used to it (I hope)."</p><div type="image" title="Coleen Rooney, Rebekah Vardy" height="1000" width="2000" msid="92814606" hostid="261"></div><p><a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Ftransfer-news%2Fwayne-rooney-dc-united-coleen-27447312">Another message revealed</a> that Coleen "cried every night" in DC because she missed the UK so much.</p><p>Due to her first experience, it sounds like Wayne will have to live in DC without his family, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11002283/Coleen-Rooney-wont-Washington-DC-Wayne.html">according to the Daily Mail</a>.</p><p>"She's made her views clear to Wayne," a source close to Coleen told the Dail Mail. "There's no way she will want to go to Washington. The last time, she absolutely hated it there. She doesn't want to live outside the North West of England, never mind live in Washington again. The family is more settled than it's ever been. They have four kids who are all in school, and all of Coleen's family live close to her ... There's no way that she'd want to give all of that up to go and live in a place she hates."</p><p>Coleen's dislike appears to be specific to DC and not the US, in general. At one point, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wayne-rooney-salary-cars-houses-2014-5">the couple owned an apartment in Florida</a> and were often seen vacationing in LA and Las Vegas. However, the family appears to be in a different stage of their lives at this point. </p><div type="image" title="Wayne Rooney and Coleen Rooney in Las Vegas" height="334" width="600" msid="92814607" hostid="261"></div>

Wayne Rooney set to return to MLS as DC United manager, and a city his wife reportedly hates

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rebekah Vardy is suing Coleen Rooney for libeling her during the 2019 "Wagatha Christie scandal," according to a court filing seen by Insider.</li><li>Last October, Rooney, the wife of Wayne Rooney, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coleen-rooney-says-rebekah-vardy-leaked-private-stories-to-media-2019-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">publicly accused Vardy of selling fake stories about her to The Sun.</a></li><li>Vardy denied the accusations and has now filed paperwork claiming Rooney to have libeled or slandered her.</li><li>The Sun reports that the legal costs are expected to be upwards of £500,000 ($620,000) per party, however that Vardy is more concerned about an public apology.</li></ul><p>Rebekah Vardy is suing Coleen Rooney for libel over the now famous 2019 "Wagatha Christie scandal," according to a filing at the UK High Court seen by Insider.</p><p>In the filing, created on June 12 and titled Vardy v Rooney, Vardy, the wife of Leicester Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy is listed as the claimant, while Rooney, wife of former England captain Wayne Rooney is listed as the defendant.</p><p><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11927978/rebekah-vardy-coleen-rooney-1m-lawsuit/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&amp;utm_source=pushlyshly">According to The Sun newspaper,</a> the lawsuit is worth £1 million ($1.25 million).</p><p>Last October, Rooney <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coleen-rooney-says-rebekah-vardy-leaked-private-stories-to-media-2019-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">publicly accused Vardy of selling fake stories about her to The Sun.</a></p><p>Rooney announced on social media that she had deduced Vardy was selling the stories by blocking everyone but Vardy from viewing her Instagram stories, before posting a number of fake stories, <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/9732351/coleen-rooney-mexico-gender-selection-baby-girl/">including one about "gender selection" treatment in Mexico,</a> to see if they made their way to The Sun.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ZHjyjBhSV" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">This has been a burden in my life for a few years now and finally I have got to the bottom of it......</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by  Coleen Rooney (@coleen_rooney) on Oct 9, 2019 at 2:29am PDT<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2019-10-09T09:29:59+00:00">Oct 9, 2019 at 2:29am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><p>The dramatic saga was labelled by the British press as the "Wagatha Christie" scandal, referencing the nickname for the partners of British football stars — WAGs, meaning "wives and girlfriends" — and the famous detective fiction author Agatha Christie.</p><p>Vardy has consistenently denied the accusations and has now filed paperwork claiming Rooney to have libeled her.</p><p>The Sun reports that the legal costs are expected to be upwards of £500,000 ($620,000) per party, however that Vardy is more concerned about an public apology to clear her name rather than any financial settlement.</p><p>A source told The Sun: "Becky has made it clear to Coleen that she is deadly serious about clearing her name, and wants a full public apology.</p><p>"It's not about money. As far as Becky is concerned, she wants her costs and vindication. But since Coleen still refuses to agree to an apology, she's gone ahead with filing the paperwork at the High Court. </p><p>"It's a very expensive thing to do and the expectation is costs could run towards half a million pounds for each side but she's completely determined to clear her name at any cost."</p><p>The court filing lists Vardy as being represented by law firm Kingsley Napley, while Rooney is represented by Brabners.</p><p>The case is unlikely to reach a full court hearing until next year, reports The Sun.</p><p><strong>Read more:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coleen-rooney-says-rebekah-vardy-leaked-private-stories-to-media-2019-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">Wayne Rooney's wife cleverly worked out who was leaking her private Instagram photos by posting 'false stories' visible to only one person: Jamie Vardy's wife</a></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coleen-rooney-rebekah-vardy-case-solved-twitter-help-2019-10">A Twitter user appeared to give Coleen Rooney the blueprint 9 months ago to solve who was leaking her information to the press</a></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/australian-journalist-pays-100k-for-beer-at-english-hotel-2019-9?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">An Australian sports journalist was accidentally charged $100,000 for a bottle of beer during a work trip to England, and he won't get his money back for over a week</a></p>

The wives of 2 of the UK's biggest football stars are locked in a $1.2 million legal fight over the 'Wagatha Christie' Instagram leak scandal

<p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d9dfcc9122bd5316a245323-1379/coleen%20rooney.jpg" border="0" alt="coleen rooney" data-mce-source="Oli Sscarff/AFP/Getty Images"><p class="source"><span>Oli Sscarff/AFP/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Coleen Rooney.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div></strong></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Coleen Rooney accused Rebekah Vardy of leaking her "false" private Instagram stories to the media without permission.</strong></li><li><strong>Rooney said she figured out the leaker by blocking all of her Instagram followers but one, Vardy, then posting "false" information to see what made its way to the press.</strong></li><li><strong>One Twitter user appeared to have laid the blueprint for Rooney nine months ago by suggesting: "Make a false story tell ppl different things see which 1 comes out = find the culprit."</strong></li><li><strong>Twitter has since celebrated the sleuthing.</strong></li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</strong></li></ul><p>Coleen Rooney, the wife of DC United star Wayne Rooney, on Wednesday posted an Instagram accusing Rebekah Vardy, the wife of Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy, of leaking information to The Sun.</p><p>Rooney said after months of information from her personal Instagram account being leaked to the press, she sought out to find who the culprit was.</p><p>According to Rooney's Instagram, she blocked all but one user from seeing her stories, weeding out who was leaking the information to the press. She determined it to be Vardy.</p><p>"Now I know for certain which account / individual it's come from. I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. It's ... Rebekah Vardy's account," Rooney wrote.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coleen-rooney-says-rebekah-vardy-leaked-private-stories-to-media-2019-10">Wayne Rooney's wife cleverly worked out who was leaking her private Instagram photos by posting 'false stories' visible to only one person: Jamie Vardy's wife</a></em></p><p>It appears Rooney may have gotten some sleuthing advice on Twitter. In January, Rooney tweeted about her information being leaked to the press. One user named @dbuzz89 might have given Rooney the blueprint to solving the issue.</p><p>"Make a false story tell ppl different things see which 1 comes out = find the culprit," @dbuzz89 tweeted back to Rooney.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/dbuzz89">@dbuzz89's Twitter</a> bio now boasts, "Detective who recently solved the coleen rooney vs rebekah vardy case."</p><p>Several people on Twitter have found the tweet and complimented @dbuzz89 on the suggestion.</p><p>Apparently, @dbuzz89 has gotten a few media requests.</p><p>Vardy denied the accusations in a separate Instagram post, saying she had never spoken to the press and was upset with Coleen for accusing her of leaking while "heavily pregnant."</p><p>According to The Independent's Colin Drury, Vardy is consulting her legal team about the accusation.</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/video-richard-sherman-baker-mayfield-handshake-coin-toss-twitter-2019-10">The Richard Sherman-Baker Mayfield handshake drama has taken a bizarre and confusing turn as video appears to show them shaking hands</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lebron-james-gave-anthony-davis-no-23-jersey-to-go-bag-2019-10">Anthony Davis found out LeBron James was gifting him the No. 23 with a surprise gift in a to-go bag at a fancy restaurant</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-15-highest-goalscorers-in-european-football-right-now-2019-10">The 15 highest goalscorers in European football right now</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-biggest-nfl-controversies-in-100-year-history-2019-9">The 12 biggest controversies in the NFL's 100-year history</a></li></ul><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>It's happened several times now over the past couple of years. It's sad to think Someone, who I have accepted to follow me is betraying for either money or to keep a relationship with the press.</p>- Coleen Rooney  (@ColeenRoo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1089563546415972353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Make a false story tell ppl different things see which 1 comes out = find the culprit</p>- dave  (@dbuzz89) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1089570785054871552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>From January! Coleen has been playing a very long game <a href="https://t.co/9nVDPG4jSQ">https://t.co/9nVDPG4jSQ</a></p>- Tara Mulholland  (@tara_mulholland) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1181885361468796935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Put this tweet in a museum <a href="https://t.co/mr4kUd7PYB">https://t.co/mr4kUd7PYB</a></p>- Vance Munson  (@GT_____) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1181887317792956421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>This tweet aged WELL!!!</p>- D  (@DonovanRoss) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1181876184537321472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Had alot of tv shows / radio shows / papers wanting me about the coleen vs rebekah scandal ... do i need an agent for this ?</p>- dave  (@dbuzz89) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1181921808007749633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-biggest-secrets-mob-football-2016-1">5 things about the NFL that football fans may not know</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/AyeVIc0o-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

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Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney's blockbuster 'Wagatha Christie' libel case could rest on a 300-year-old ruling about stolen jewelry

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Wayne Rooney's wife cleverly worked out who was leaking her private Instagram photos by posting 'false stories' visible to only one person: Jamie Vardy's wife

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Wayne Rooney set to return to MLS as DC United manager, and a city his wife reportedly hates

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The wives of 2 of the UK's biggest football stars are locked in a $1.2 million legal fight over the 'Wagatha Christie' Instagram leak scandal

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A Twitter user appeared to give Coleen Rooney the blueprint 9 months ago to solve who was leaking her information to the press

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