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The theory goes that if the snake stays in your line of sight, it won't bite you.
For the famous
-the famous mostly-
the 'paparazzi' are
more dangerous than the snakes.
If they have you in camera shot, wham!, you don't get rid of it.
His victims are also uncles, as
Orlando Bloom, Justin Bieber, Jesús Vázquez,
Count
Lequio, Sergio Dalma
and even
Julián Muñoz had the opportunity to verify.
Little sticks.
But in this market
girls are more quoted
when they are famous and almost always beautiful.
Some,
siliconed or tattooed with flowers
or butterflies;
others, with gentle skin to body.
All confident.
When they commune on the sand with the voluptuous summer sun -what light, what light!- they are adorable with their bronze bodies that,
naked or almost,
in the bluish calm of the sea unknowingly expose themselves to the prying eyes of the targets. of the photographers in ambush, defying the passing of the hours, who
traffic in a greedy material.
The beach is usually public,
although sometimes it is a 'beach club', an exclusive area like
a private pool.
But the thieves of venal images have no limits.
It is the law of the trade,
it is the law of the jungle:
the famous have
public projection
and, therefore, the photographs have informative interest.
So much so that you pay
a lot for them.
For this reason, the same seas of every summer become the workplace of hordes of professional voyeurs who, cameras at the ready, lie in wait for the carelessness of celebrities who, like everyone else, let their guard down on vacation.
Whether 'celebrities' claim justice, reputation or simply set a precedent, some
have made their mark in the courts
and have drawn
a red line between their anatomy and the craft of photography.
Lady Di was the favorite target of the 'paparazzi', with or without a swimsuit.GETTY IMAGES
Sarah Ferguson, Ladi Di and Kate Middleton: 'bodies' targeted by the cameras
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
's marriage
ended in scandal in 1992 over compromising photos published in the 'Daily Mirror' which, among other adult images, showed Texan millionaire
John Bryan sucking a
topless Sarah
's big toe.
'
in a villa on the
Côte d'Azur.
In August 1997, 'The Daily Mail', 'The Sun' and 'France Dimanche'
paid 450,000 euros
for some photos of
Lady Di on the Jonikal,
the lavish yacht of businessman
Dodi Al Fayed,
anchored in the waters of Portofino.
The princess had only one week left among the living.
The magazine 'Hello!'
had scheduled for its first September issue a cover with one of those images with the title
'Diana's solitude'.
It was not published because
of her unexpected death.
Fifteen years later, in 2012, the magazine 'Closer'
paid a million and a half euros
for a
Kate Middleton topless,
stolen while the Duchess of Cambridge was sunbathing in a private pool at the Château d'Autet, the 19th-century mansion of the
Viscount of Linley in the French Provence.
A court sentenced 'Closer' to pay 190,000 euros to the Duchess.
Not even that compensation mitigated the shame and
anger, offense and indignation,
of Lady Di's daughter-in-law.
They are normal feelings when they
exhibit your privacy
without your consent.
It's not hard to see Kate Moss topless... or in a bikini
Do you have your assets covered?
Normally,
the 'celebrities' are surprised in summer
in delicate situations.
The usual moment is to
sunbathe
with shorts off or
bare chested,
generally on a beach, a yacht or a swimming pool.
The photos are usually taken
with a telephoto lens
from afar and rarely capture more than breasts, although some celebrities are caught naked as horses.
("There is nothing more naked than a horse", said
Robert de Musil).
For the preservation of privacy -I already said it- there is nothing more dangerous than a 'paparazzo'.
Kylie Minogue
knew it
when, in 2003, after a photo session on a beach in St. Tropez, she
saw her butt published.
The images appeared in several British newspapers, but 'The Sun' took Kylie's antipodes to its maximum expression of hyperrealism by publishing
a color and life-size poster
-according to the tabloid it was 30 centimeters-.
Between
the fans, the Peeping Toms
and legions of green endive women,
the edition, of course, sold out.
The singer filed a lawsuit and reproached the thieves of her privacy that she
"was no longer old enough for such things."
For what he had no age, nor desire, was for them to meddle in his things.
In fact, she lent her image to British artist
Katerina Jebb's latest video,
in which she marked her butt, to denounce
the marketing of glorious bodies.
A voice in 'off' asked:
"Do you have your assets covered?
Protect what you love most. Don't wait for tomorrow."
The 'I Should Be So Lucky' singer's anatomy was described as
"one of Australia's most beloved landmarks,
a national institution."
The furor over Kylie prompted the Woolworths supermarket chain to offer her to star in an exercise video to teach women how to achieve the perfect tafanario.
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Penélope Cruz
was photographed
'topless'
during a vacation with the athletic Czech cameraman
Thomas Obermaier,
whom she had met on the set of 'The Apple of Your Eyes' in Prague.
The photographs went around the world nonstop and, some time later,
angered another of her partners, Tom Cruise.
Mercedes Milá
had to pay the same toll for fame
ten years ago when they captured her nude on board a boat in Menorca.
She made people talk and
Milá sued 'Interviú',
which published the images.
She won.
Elle McPherson and Kate Moss
are the ones who
give photographers a hard time,
since they usually take off their bikini top to offer
their boobs to the sun.
In the same guise they caught Princess
Natalia of Prussia,
whose 'topless' succumbed to the photojournalists.
The 'toples' stolen from the 'top model' Laura Ponte
brought a lawsuit for the
first time
to the Supreme Court for
violation of the right to privacy
and one's own image.
It was the year 2008 and the high court acquitted 'Interviú' of the lawsuit filed by Ponte.
The magazine continued to
publish stolen photos of naked celebrities.
It wouldn't be for long.
In March 2007,
Elsa Pataky
was doing a report on the Rivera Maya for the magazine 'Elle'.
She was posing without a bikini top,
but she was covering her chest with one hand.
The beach was private,
from a hotel.
Hiding nearby, two non-magazine photographers
captured a nude image
of her and another of her changing clothes.
Zeta Editions paid 40,000 euros for the photos.
The actress filed a lawsuit to protect her right to personal privacy.
She lost in the first trial.
She appealed to the
Provincial Court,
which upheld the decision of the court of first instance.
Finally, in 2012,
the Supreme Court sentenced Ediciones Zeta
to pay the model
compensation of 310,000 euros
for damages to her image and reputation.
Until then, the maximum sanction that had been filed was around 10,000 euros, which
made it profitable to publish the photos.
Elle Macpherson 'caught' (but dressed), taking a shower on a yacht.GTRES ONLINE
Mariló Montero's record
The doctrine was consolidated
in 2014 with a
Constitutional ruling
won by the actress
Melani Olivares,
whom, without her consent, the same magazine took out topless, in 2005,
while basking on a beach in Ibiza.
After nine years of litigation, the Constitutional Court, which did not appreciate public interest in the photos,
forced 'Interviú' to pay 70,000 euros
to Olivares and
established jurisprudence.
The sentences of Pataky and Olivares
put fear in the body
of certain disaffected publications, which had no choice but to accept
that information has limits
and that a stolen report is not always in the public interest.
If a community democratically decides to punish those who refuse to drive on the right or stop at a red light, it is submitting to the same common sense as if it decides
to punish those who intrude
on the privacy of others.
The presenter and model
Mariló Montero
broke the bank when she received, at the beginning of this year,
a compensation of 340,000 euros
for some topless photographs stolen during a vacation in the
Maldives and Bora Bora.
A record sentence in compensation for
interference with the rights to privacy
and honor, which are priceless values.
Or, more exactly, the price is set by one.
That is what
the Spanish law on the civil protection of honor,
privacy and one's own image says.
Total, that
the famous have drunk the law in a long glass
and fight like panthers for their dignity or for the exclusive rights to their own image.
The fire brigade belongs to all of us,
the corps itself, 'va de soi', is private.
And point.
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