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Damages are to be paid to Madonna after the Mail on Sunday apparently violated the pop singer’s privacy and copyright when it published 11 photos of her wedding to Guy Ritchie. A London judge ruled in Madonna’s favor last year concerning the breach.

The undisclosed sum paid to the singer will be subsequently donated to her charity, Raising Malawi.  Madonna’s rights were found to be violated after the judge heard that an interior designer working at the singer’s home in Beverly Hills “surreptitiously” copied the photos of the 2000 wedding, reports the BBC.

The 51-year-old had been seeking £5 million in damages from Associated Newspapers, though the singer was not present at London’s High Court on Tuesday to collect the settlement.

According to the BBC, the Mail on Sunday admitted to wrongdoing. The paper paid  £5,000 to acquire the pictures of the wedding, which took place at Skibo Castle in Scotland. The photos ran in the Mail almost a year ago this October, just after it became official that the couple were about to split. Before the photos appeared in the Mail, no photos of the wedding had ever been published.

Obviously, the Madonna and Ritchie had gone through quite a lot to keep the photos away from the press for so long. Madonna’s solicitor, John Kelly, told the BBC: “It was far more important to the claimant that the privacy of the occasion was maintained.”