Jacinda Ardern’s Partner Gets Settlement Over ‘Baseless Lies’

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s partner, Clarke Gayford, said he’s been paid an undisclosed sum following a settlement with a media company that published untrue comments about him.

NZME Radio on March 25 made remarks about him on both a podcast and social media pages that were damaging and untrue, Gayford said in a statement Friday in Wellington. The remarks were based on rumors about him that were “baseless lies,” he said.