The ultra-thin, premiere-dodging Keira Knightley recently won nearly $6000 in a libel suit against British tab The Daily Mail over their claims that her super-skinny body was encouraging young women to starve themselves. The $6000 can be interpreted to represent either 0.0003% of the revenue earned by Daily Mail for that issue, or 0.0002% of the value of the publicity they've seen as a result of the lawsuit. Take your pick.

The tabloid ran a photo of Keira in a bikini, with the headline: "If Pictures Like This One of Keira Carried a Health Warning, My Darling Daughter Might Have Lived," with the article suggesting that Keira's weight had contributed to the death of 19-year-old Sophie Mazurek.

A lawyer for the paper's publisher said they apologized for the distress and embarrassment caused by the article and accepted that the actress bore no responsibility for Mazurek's death.

Keira plans to match the amount she won in the suit -- another $6000 -- and donate the total to BEAT, a charity which helps people with eating and mental disorders. She still has no plans to attend any of the premieres for Pirates 3.

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