In 1959 Liberace took the English newspaper (for want of a better description) the Daily Mirror to court for libel for describing him as a "…the summit of sex—the pinnacle of masculine, feminine and neuter. Everything that he, she and it can ever want… a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love", basically describing him as a homosexual. Surprisingly, Liberace won the case and was awarded 8,000 pounds. When he died from complications due to being HIV positive the Daily Mirror supposedly ran the headline, "Can we have our money back?"