Former TV personality Nomura Sachiyo (71) has won a libel case against a journalist with the Shuukan Jitsuwa (Weekly True Stories) magazine. She filed for ¥16.5 million but was awarded ¥2.2 million. The magazine printed claims in 1999 about Sachi’s debts and embezzlement of funds after she failed in an attempt to launch a career in politics. Her lawyer says that this libel case is just the first of 31 against various newspaper and magazine publishers and TV stars. Following her unceremonious, but totally deserved, dumping by the entertainment world, this is probably the only way she can support her extravagant lifestyle. She is the wife of former baseball great Nomura Katsuya (70).