Elton John is in the news again, but not for the reason you think

John received 100,000 pounds in libel damages from a British newspaper which said he acted like a “tinpot dictator” when he ordered guests at a charity function not to approach him.

“The articles falsely alleged that Sir Elton had issued a bizarre and absurd edict to guests … ordering them not to approach him … thereby acting like old-fashioned royalty or some tinpot dictator and exhibiting self-important, arrogant and rude behavior bordering on paranoia,” Nigel Tait, John’s attorney, said in court.

John donated the funds to the Elton John AIDS foundation. It was the second time this year the singer has won a libel suit against a British newspaper.