Sanoma Media Finland plans to reimburse violinist Linda Lampenius for the cost of a newspaper advertisement she was compelled to pay for more than 20 years ago to apologise to ex-fashion tycoon Peter Nygård, Suomen Kuvalehti reports.
In 2001, Lampenius paid for a full-page ad in Ilta-Sanomat and gave an interview to halt the ex-fashion tycoon's demands for damages over alleged defamation.
The dispute stemmed from comments she made in 1997 about an encounter with Nygård during a trip to California, in which she warned against sending young Finnish women to his residence. She told tabloid magazine 7 päivää that Nygård had shown her photographs of naked women taken at his villa.
The advertisement cost 35,000 Finnish marks, which these days amounts to nearly 9,000 euros.
Finnish-born Nygård was convicted in Canada in 2024 on multiple counts of sexual assault that took place between the 1980s and the mid-2000s.
Sanoma's chief executive, Pia Kalsta, told Suomen Kuvalehti that the repayment would still need to be discussed with Lampenius.
