Celebrity Mound

Brooke Shields has come to an agreement with the National Enquirer after alleging a reporter and photographer from the tabloid checked her elderly mother, who suffers from dementia, out of a New Jersey nursing home last month.

“Two weeks ago, Brooke Shields was forced to make a public disclosure about her mother, Teri Shields’s health, when we learned that Mrs. Shields had been taken out of a care facility by a reporter and photographer working for the National Enquirer and I was told that the National Enquirer was going to print information about her condition and whereabouts,” Shields’s attorney, Gerald B. Lefcourt told People.com.

“I am very pleased to report that [the] National Enquirer was prevailed upon not to publish a story,” says Lefcourt. “Further, it has or will be apologizing publicly. Finally, it has agreed to make a generous donation to further research on dementia and to encourage others to do so.”

At the time of the incident, the actress was alerted by Old Tappan Police that her 75-year-old mother had been signed out of the facility by two National Enquirer reporters who claimed to have been friends of the elderly Shields.

According to the Enquirer, “Teri has long considered this reporter a friend. At no point did the facility, which had given its permission for the outing, contend that there had been any wrongdoing in a situation where two people who had known each for more than a decade.”

The tabloid says that the reporter, who took Shields to lunch next door to the nursing home, was not on assignment at the time but has often worked for them as a freelancer.

Police officers found Shields unharmed and walked her back to the assisted living center.

“I am glad that Brooke Shields and her family can consider the matter now closed,” Lefcourt said.

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