…ther magazines or papers in France • The photographs cannot be sold by them to anyone else in the world • Closer would get a 10,000 euro daily fine each time they sell them on or publish them • Within 24 hours the offending pictures must be handed over to the Palace • Legal fees of 2,000 euros handed to the Duke and Duchess At the start of the unprecedented court case in Paris, barrister Aurelien…
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Read More »…s bought by the Linleys in 1999 after they were introduced to the area by Peter Mayle, the author of the bestselling book A Year in Provence. The French version of Closer magazine was launched in June 2005 as a sister title to the British Closer, which is owned by UK publishing company Emap. It was sold in August 2006 to Mondadori France, a subsidiary of an Italian company, and now sells around 40…
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…te photos not yet published. Italian magazine Chi – along with Closer, part of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Mondadori media group – printed a special edition featuring 26 pages of the photographs. Chi magazine carries a picture of the duchess, topless, on its front cover with a headline that reads: “The Queen is Nude!” In an editorial the magazine’…
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…ake the pictures I want and let the publication decide whether to print them. “What they choose to print is not the photographer’s problem, but the editor’s.” There are thought to be up to 200 photos taken of Kate and Prince William at the time – many of them much more explicit. Closer magazine’s editor Laurence Pieau defended her decision to publish 13 of the photos, insis…
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he Italian gossip magazine Chi – which, like Closer, is part of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Mondadori media group – also printed a special edition featuring more than 20 pages of the photographs. …
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…the photographs, which were taken from a road some distance from the French chateau where the duke and duchess were staying for a short break. Chi, the Italian magazine, said it would print a special 26-page edition featuring the photographs on Monday. Closer, the French magazine which first published the photographs, and Chi are both part of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’…
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Read More » Alfonso Signorini, editor of Italy’s Chi magazine has defended the publication of 18 pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless in a special edition devoting 26 pages to his “exclusive”. Alfonso Signorini said he has done nothing illegal and he published the 26-page photo feature to show how the royal family in Britain had modernized. “I published them with a…
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Read More »French magazine Closer has published topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge. Closer says the pictures were taken when Prince William and Kate Middleton were on holiday last week at the French chateau of the Queen’s nephew, Lord Linley. The photos are blurry and taken with a long lens but are clearly of the royal couple, who are touring the Far East. They were told about the magazineR…
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Read More »Italian magazine Chi plans to publish more topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge as it claims it has some 200 images of the future queen sunbathing naked. Chi announced it is preparing a 26-page special edition tomorrow featuring 50 intimate photographs of Kate Middleton on holiday in France. It comes as a furious Prince William revealed he wants those responsible for taking and printing t…
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tures of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on holiday Alfonso Signorini, 48, a former Latin teacher said: “I really don’t see what all the fuss is about. I don’t see how a topless photo in 2012 can create all these scandal and controversy. Kate is a very beautiful woman. What is the problem – and William is also a fine figure of a man. “All Kate is doing is sunbathing topless lik…
Sep 18 2012 | Posted in
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Read More » A French court has blocked the future publication of topless photos of Kate Middleton sunbathing while on holiday. The injunction came after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took action against France’s Closer magazine for selling and distributing the images. The publishers must give the originals to the couple within 24 hours. The magazine will face a fine of 10,000 euros for every breach…
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Read More »…216;s Italian sister magazine, Chi, from publishing the same photos but the speed with which the royal couple have acted may deter others from publishing the pictures. Chi has said it plans to print a 26-page special featuring the photographs. Closer and Chi are both part of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Mondadori media group. This is only the first step in the legal batt…
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lian gossip magazine Chi – which, like Closer, is part of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Mondadori media group – also printed a special edition featuring more than 20 pages of the photographs. …
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…e Danish publication’s website on Wednesday said: “Se og Hor has exclusively (in Denmark) obtained the pictures of the topless Duchess of Cambridge, Kate. “Tomorrow we will publish a 16-page spread full of piquant photos of England’s future queen.” …
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…ut her famous derriere, Kim Kardashian’s curves look sublime in a sheer cream lace and silk set paired with leopard print stilettos, pearls and yet another fur accoutrement. Launched in February 2011, Factice Magazine is a French, fashion and online (every two months) magazine. It is just one of the many projects which Kim Kardashian has been working on of late. The always busy star has been…
Spanish Magazine de Fuera de Serie landed themselves in the middle of a racial controversy over a Photoshopped picture of First Lady Michelle Obama on the cover of their latest issue. The picture places Michelle Obama’s face in a 1800 portrait of a slave with an exposed breast, and Magazine de Fuera de Serie likely knew the image was going to stir up controversy. The editors may have had a…
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Read More » Ernesto Mauri, head of the publisher of France’s Closer magazine, and photographer Valerie Suau are under formal investigation in France over the publication of topless pictures of a sunbathing Kate Middleton. Topless pictures of Kate Middleton, taken during a private holiday in France, were published by Closer magazine in September 2012. Local newspaper La Provence used pictures of the duc…
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…trength of political engagement came at the ballot box, where four out of five registered French voters cast a vote. Turnout was slightly down on the 84% who voted in the last presidential election in 2007, but given the poor showings in the regional and European elections in the last few years, there had been fears it would be a lot lower. And 80% far outstrips the turnout in the most recent nati…
…nch publishing history Daily newspaper Le Figaro wrote: “It has no intellectual construction. It is Fifty Shades of Boredom.” The paper compared the book – first released in the UK in May 2011 – to French classic erotic writing by the Marquis de Sade and Anais Nin’s The Story Of O. It added: “Alongside them, this is soda-masochism <<lite>>, full of insignifican…
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toms – taken from the front. The photos appear to be from the same set of shots originally taken while Prince William and his wife were holidaying in the South of France. There are thought to be up to 200 photos taken of Kate and William when they were sunbathing at a secluded chateau. The most revealing photograph in Se Og Hor, which appears on the front page of the magazine, shows the Duchess ch…
Sep 29 2012 | Posted in
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…“I’m against the idea of dressing young – that shows fear. When you see a woman with long, loose hair, a slender silhouette, and she turns and you see she no longer has the face for it.” She said in 1977 to W magazine. Hélène loved natural beauty and belived that everyone could find her or his own style, “create a personal atmosphere, one to refine yourself in”. “I don’t like creams…. In…
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…tion should be taken against Charlie Hebdo. France is braced for protests, with plans to close some embassies in foreign capitals on Friday. Embassies, consulates, cultural centres and schools in some 20 countries are to shut as a precaution. Public protests in Muslim countries sometimes take place after traditional Friday prayers. A tenet of Islam bans the portrayal of its founder, the Prophet Mu…
…d autopsy photos of the murdered child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey. In her hometown of Boulder, Colorado, many stores were so outraged by the publication that they took the edition off the stands. In 2010, Globe magazine published a front cover with a picture of actor Gary Coleman during his last hours – sparking outrage throughout the world. In the photograph Gary Coleman can be seen on hi…
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Read More » …and take the topless pictures off its website • The photos cannot be published in any other magazines or papers in France • The photographs cannot be sold by them to anyone else in the world • Within 24 hours the offending pictures must be handed over to the Palace • Closer would get a 10,000 euros daily fine each time they sell them on or publish them • They will receive the same fine if they do…
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…sed her. Heike Dorsch, 37, managed to escape hours later to alert authorities and they began a seven-day search for her partner, Stefan Ramin. Last week, the ashes were found in a valley by a squad of 22 police officers and among the embers were bones including a jaw bone, teeth and melted metal, believed to be fillings. Stefan Ramin and his girlfriend, Heike Dorsch, before he disappeared…
