Remember how last year X17Online ran with the story that Parker was fooling around on his new bride Longoria, but then it turned out to be a bunch of hooey? X17 finally fessed up. Here’s their statement, in its entirety:

In December 2007, X17online.com published over ten articles concerning Tony Parker and a woman named Alexandra Paressant. Various of the articles asserted that, after Mr. Parker was introduced to Ms. Paressant by Thierry Henry at this wedding to Eva Longoria, Mr. Parker engaged in sexual relations with Ms. Paressant. Since the publication of these articles, X17online.com and X17, Inc. have discovered that Mr. Parker has never met with, or spoken to, Ms. Paressant nor has he ever had sexual relations with her. X17online.com and X17, Inc. regret having been misled by Ms. Paressant and her representatives and apologize to Mr. Parker for any damage or inconvenience this may have caused him or his wife.

Confession is good for the soul. And so is avoiding a $20 million lawsuit! For what it’s worth, Deceiver’s own apology is here. (Note the date on it…) And here is Dana Kennedy’s detective work that blew the story wide open. Whaddaya call that, when you actually check facts and stuff? Oh yeah: Reporting.