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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Read More »n’t approve of a diet of McDonald’s for my children.” Jade Jagger was so confident that she decided to go topless on the beach In another recent interview, Jade Jagger, who will be 40 in October, said she isn’t worried about growing older. “I’m not interested in Botox or getting a facelift. There comes a point where you have to let go and accept that you are no longer the…
…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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…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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1;. Kim Henningsen, editor-in-chief of the Danish magazine, said the pictures will show Denmark “what these photos are all about”. The edition is said to have been distributed to more than 6,000 kiosks and shops across Denmark. St James’s Palace said “proportionate responses were under review”. News of the magazines’ decision emerged as Prince William and Kate M…
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Read More » …as taking out an injunction to stop their publication. All the palace will be able to do is express their anger and disgust. The photographs were taken at the magnificent Chateau D’Aulet, set in 640 acres of rolling countryside and surrounded by fields of lavender. Close to the medieval village of Viens, it is owned by Viscount Linley, the Queen’s nephew and his wife Serena. Although i…
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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 » eir options including legal action against Chi and the Irish Daily Star, which published the pictures on Saturday causing co-owner Richard Desmond to threaten to close the paper with the loss of up to 70 jobs. St James’s Palace has not, however, lodged a formal complaint with the Irish Press Council, the newspaper regulator. Its code of practice does not quite ban photos taken in private pla…
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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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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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…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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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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said on the magazine’s website, adding these were photographs “which the whole world is talking about but very few have actually seen”. The edition has been distributed to more than 6,000 kiosks and shops across Denmark. He added that the story had been given prominence across all forms of media in Denmark, especially on the main television outlets. News of the publication emerg…
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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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ping up in advertisements. She thought the unwanted attention would eventually come to an end, but the problem has only worsened. A recent Google Image search of “Angie Varona” drew almost 65,000 images. There are also numerous unauthorized Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and YouTube channels, all claiming to be Angie Varona – one Facebook fan page has more than 41,000 likes….
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…ns, who specializes in intellectual property rights and human rights, said the photographer would have broken the law to take the photographs. “Unless they’ve driven a motorway through the 648 acres, you’ll find that the property [where the duchess was] is at the centre of that location and it’s surrounded by hills, so I’m certainly advised that without trespassing &#…
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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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…o civil penalties of up to $16,000 per day for each infringement. Facebook had no comment beyond a statement that it is pleased the settlement received final approval. The company’s stock gained 52 cents, or 2.5%, to $21.53 in midday trading Friday. Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, began trading publicly in mid-May, after the settlement with the FTC was reached. …
Ashton Kutcher naked on Ellen show. Demi Moore, posted a semi-nude photo from her bathroom on Twitter this week with the caption, “remember…you’ve got your own back”. In the self-pic, 48-year old actress, Demi Moore poses topless from the waist up, but only her naked back is visible. She tweeted the topless photo of herself late Thursday night. Demi Moore took the pictur…
…lothes off by police and quickly led along with her two partners to a nearby police station where the protesters are being questioned. Femen is Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev and was founded in 2008. The organization became internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourism, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international issues. &…
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Read More » Danish magazine Se og Hør ran a series this week that promised photos of Kate Middleton completely nude, not just topless. The grainy photos, which appear to have just made their way to the Internet on Friday, would seem to be more scandalous than the first. Se og Hør claims they show the duchess not just topless, but sans her bikini bottoms as well. The scanned photos were picked up by Egotastic…
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…lawyers for the actress said she owned the copyright to prevent them from being further published. FBI agents from “Operation Hackerazzi” spoke to Scarlett Johansson along with as many as 50 other celebrity victims. Christopher Chaney, 35, was later identified as the man who hacked Scarlett Johansson’s phone, along with those of Christina Aguilera, Vanessa Hudgens and Mila Kunis…
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…he pictures represented a crucial test of Britain’s free press. St James’s Palace had contacted the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) on Wednesday because it said it had concerns about the 27-year-old prince’s privacy being intruded upon, in breach of the editors’ code of practice. The palace said it had heard a number of UK newspapers were considering using the pictures, a…
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rted Arnaud Montebourg’s efforts. “France’s steel industry needs to live – there are 2,200 people on the site, 22,000 Arcelor Mittal employees in France and globally, there are 75,000 [employees involved in steel],” he told France Inter radio. “And the idea that the government, along with its sovereign wealth fund and partners like Eramet and Ascometal (mining a…
