Boris Becker, who squandered the millions he acquired during his tennis career, has lost a lawsuit for defamation.
Serving a prison sentence in England Boris Becker received more bad news on Tuesday when the Offenburg court ruled that the German comedian Oliver Pocher has defamed Becker in his TV show broadcast in 2020.
There was a segment in Pocher’s title program shown on the RTL channel Make Boris rich again (Finnish: Let’s make Boris rich again), where a fundraiser was set up for the bankrupt former tennis star. In the section, the reporter looks for Becker and tries to give him a bundle of several hundred euro bills.
– It’s about sending unauthorized material. During the process, Boris Becker was humiliated, the lawyer Samy Hammad argued in court.
Becker’s camp demanded that the program not be shown again and that it be taken off the internet. However, the demands did not go through.
– Perhaps it would have been wiser, especially from today’s perspective, for Mr. Becker not to have started this legal dispute, Pocheria represented Patricia Cronemeyer already stated before the court decision.
According to the Times, relations between Becker and Pocher cooled in 2008, when the tennis star became engaged to the mother of the comedian’s children by Alessandra Meyer-Wölden, but the relationship was short-lived. However, the Wimbledon winner has visited Pocher’s shows over the years. A well-known TV character has, among other things, imitated Becker.
Deportation ahead
Becker, 54, is currently serving a sentence at Huntercombe Prison in Oxfordshire for concealing assets in connection with bankruptcy.
The sentence handed down in April is for two and a half years, but The Sun newspaper reported that parole may be expected before Christmas. Upon his release, Becker would face deportation to his home country of Germany.
Sources: RTL, Bild
In 2013, Boris Becker and Oliver Pocher appeared together in the same program. PDO