…a 10,000 euros daily fine if photos of the Duchess of Cambridge are re-published. The Duke and Duchess have also filed a criminal complaint under France’s privacy laws which could see Closer fined up 50,000 euros and its editor serve up to a year in prison. And they have filed against “persons unknown”, referring to the photographer, who has not yet been identified. The Duke and Duchess of Cambri…
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Read More »…une 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 400,000 copies a week. French Closer claims the country’s leading women’s “people” magazine. It also has a very successful website, which will be carrying the pictures too, said a Closer…
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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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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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…tity under France’s laws on protection of journalistic sources. Meanwhile a criminal investigation is under way to find and prosecute the photographer – who could face a year in jail and a 50,000 euros fine. Yet the photos are still being touted on the open market worldwide, with magazines in Italy, Denmark and Sweden all publishing them. Closer published 13 grainy images of Kate’…
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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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Read More »photos could just as easily been taken by a member of the public standing on the road bordering Lord Linley’s Chateau d’Autet. It has been estimated the photos were all taken from between 400 m and 800 m away, which would have meant a member of the public would have to have been equipped with an expensive long-lens camera. Chi magazine, which caused a furor by publishing photos of Ka…
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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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ioned a plastic surgeon Paolo Santanche to describe the Duchess’s body. Italian magazine Chi has published 18 controversial pictures 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 beaut…
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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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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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…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…
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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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Read More » …on thrones today as they embarked on the last leg of their Diamond Jubilee tour. The royal couple arrived in Tuvalu, a small cluster of islands in the South Pacific, and was greeted by an enthusiastic 5,000-strong local crowd….
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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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Jessica Simpson has reportedly sold pictures of her newborn Maxwell Drew to People magazine for $800,000. Jessica Simpson, whose celebrity fashion line is reported to have raked in one billion dollars in sales, gave birth to her first child, daughter Maxwell Drew, on May 1. People magazine has done a deal with Jessica Simpson to run exclusive photos, sources told Women’s Wear Daily. It is s…
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Read More » …closely follows U.S. tabloids. TMZ – the website which broke the news of Michael Jackson’s death – was even running a poll asking its viewers if Prince Harry was “awesome” or “disgraceful”. More than 530,000 had voted, with almost two-thirds opting for “awesome”. All of these websites can be easily viewed in the UK, and many, such as the Huffington Post, TMZ and Jezebel, already have a loyal Brit…
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…h ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort in Hawaii Baby Pearl Clementine was also dressed in a white wedding outfit for the occasion, and even sported a veil just like mummy. The lovebirds were joined by 48 guests, including the famous Osbourne clan, during the ceremony and party on the romantic island. And the emotional ceremony was definitely a family occasion, as Jack Osbourne’s sister Kelly…
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Kate Middleton and Prince William faced fresh anguish over privacy today after Italian and Australian magazines published photographs of the pregnant duchess in a bikini and more publications round the world lined up to do the same. Palace sources condemned the “violating” pictures, which show the couple walking along a beach while holidaying on the secluded Caribbean island of Mustique. Chi maga…
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Justin Timberlake has described his wedding to Jessica Biel as a “total fantasy” as the couple revealed the first picture of their magical wedding ceremony in the pages of People magazine. In the shot, Justin Timberlake, 31, wearing a Tom Ford tuxedo that he helped to design, is seen literally jumping for joy, while his new wife sits serenely in the foreground in the pictures, which they sold for…
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the teen magazine, she landed a record deal with Arista and began putting together her first album. Whitney Houston released her self-titled debut album two years later, in 1985, which sold more than 25 million copies internationally and paved the way for her to hit the big-time. The touching photographs only make the star’s untimely death seem even more tragic, and they are unearthed as it is re…
…s to go on progesterone like every month… and then when I was pregnant, I had to stay with the progesterone for 10 weeks,” Mariah Carey told Barbara Walters. “It minimizes the chance of miscarriage by 50 percent.” Nick Cannon, 31, admitted during the interview that he had concerns about his wife, whom he married in April 2008. “It was good news but it was scary news at the same time,” Nick admitte…
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…
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Jessica Simpson gave birth to her first child Maxwell Drew Johnson nearly a month ago but has resolutely refused to share any pictures of her little girl with her fans. Now Jessica Simpson, 31, has posed up with her daughter Maxwell Drew Johnson on the cover of People magazine. Holding Maxwell tenderly, Jessica Simpson is seen beaming with pride as she tells the publication that the little girl,…
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