Daily Mail Removes 12-Photo Meg White Story After Mistaking Detroit Woman for Drummer
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Updated · Consequence · Aug 23
Daily Mail Removes 12-Photo Meg White Story After Mistaking Detroit Woman for Drummer
3 articles · Updated · Consequence · Aug 23
Summary
More than a dozen photos of a Detroit woman were published in a Daily Mail story on Meg White’s “secret new life,” but people close to White told The Guardian the woman was not the former White Stripes drummer.
The woman reportedly told the tabloid it had the wrong person when approached, yet the paper treated her later “thank you” after praise for The White Stripes as confirmation it had found White.
The woman was actually a friend of White’s, according to multiple sources, and a music industry executive close to both said neither woman knew she was being followed and photographed.
Last week the Daily Mail quietly removed the story and images without a correction or editor’s note; neither the paper nor reporter Joe Hutchison responded to The Guardian’s requests for comment.
Meg White has largely stayed out of public life since The White Stripes split in 2011, and a source close to her said she is well and still living the private life she has long sought.