…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…
Sep 18 2012 | Posted in
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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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The 85-year-old Duchess of Alba’s latest romance with Alfonso Diez was crowned yesterday as she married for the third time. Duchess of Alba said few months ago she believed that “every great love story should end in marriage”. One of Spain’s richest and best-loved public figures, Duchess of Alba walked down the aisle with a toyboy 25 years her junior. Duchess of Alba, 85, with her ne…
…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’…
Sep 18 2012 | Posted in
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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…
Sep 17 2012 | Posted in
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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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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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…last October; the bride, an eccentric billionaire with more titles than Queen Elizabeth II; her groom a civil servant young enough to be her son. Alfonso Diez is the duchess’s third husband and 25 years her junior. Duchess of Alba and her husband Alfonso Diez were today spotted enjoying a sunshine break on the island of Formentera It emerged ahead of the wedding that the twice-widowed duch…
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…
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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…
Sep 16 2012 | Posted in
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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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…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 » …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…
Sep 17 2012 | Posted in
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…to use them had been a “brutal” invasion of the couple’s privacy. However, the injunction was branded a “hollow victory” because more than 500,000 copies of the magazine have already been sold, about 100,000 more then normal. And there were fears that the ruling would do little to halt the worldwide spread of the pictures because the magazine does not own the copyright. A freelance photographer b…
Sep 19 2012 | Posted in
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…ail said that if the person owned a dog, and the dog died, they would not come to my funeral home,” Carolyn Whigham said. “I’m worried about my employees, worried about me. I’ve been in business since 1943. This is my name, my character. Honestly, this is my life’s work. We would never do something like this.” Whitney Houston’s mother Cissy and daughter Bobbi Kristina are said to be outraged…
…Diez as they strolled the streets of the French capital But despite the objections of her six children – and plenty of public controversy – Spain’s Duchess of Alba wed Alfonso Diez at her 15th century palace in Seville. The famously flamboyant Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart wore a delicate pale pink gown designed by Victorio y Lucchino for her third marriage, which took place in front of…
Apr 30 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…
Sep 18 2012 | Posted in
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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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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby, St James’s Palace announced today. Kate Middleton, 30, was taken to King Edward VII Hospital in Central London with acute morning sickness this afternoon. In a statement on the couple’s website, Prince William and Kate Middleton said they were “delighted with the news”. K…
…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…
Sep 20 2012 | Posted in
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…of Cornwall was presented with a rare hybrid orchid named in her honor, the Dendrobium Camilla. At Boera village, hundreds of residents turned out to greet Prince Charles and the duchess. Jenny Lohia, 24, topless and dressed traditionally in a leaf skirt and body paintings, gave Camilla a peck on the cheek as she placed a necklace of shells around her neck as a welcoming present. They royal couple…
mage even managed to break through and reach the front page of Reddit, but apparently was pushed off. For those who want details, but do not want to view the image, the picture shows the corpse of the 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev lying on what appears to be a morgue table. Multiple bullet wounds can be seen, as well as a large gash along the left side of his chest in the area of his rib cage. Acc…
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ealer joked that he has a photo that is proof Nicolas Cage is more than just an A-list actor – he’s also a vampire who lived during the American Civil War. The eBay seller claims to have a 4” by 2.5” carte de visit photo from around 1870 of a man who looks exactly like Nicolas Cage. The seller, who has put the starting price at $1million, says the photo is 100% genuine and was taken of a man…
Iranian athlete Mehrdad Karam Zadeh refused to shake the Duchess of Cambridge’s hand after she presented him with his discus silver medal on Sunday. The Royal was warmly received on the podium by Paralympic GB’s gold medal winner Aled Davies and Chinese bronze medallist Lezheng Wang – but when it was Mehrdad Karam Zadeh’s turn to step up, the 40-year-old failed to offer a…
Sep 3 2012 | Posted in
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…condition and said: “Imagine having a stomach bug that lasts for days and days, months and months – it is just relentless. “Any movement, any sound, any smell just makes you vomit. “I vomited 20 to 30 times a day for the first few months, in the latter part it was just once or twice a day but it’s still unpleasant. “One of the big issues with it is isolation because is causes many…
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