Closer magazine bosses fined over Julie Gayet photo
French actress Julie Gayet, whose affair with President Francois Hollande made headlines worldwide, yesterday won a privacy case against a photographer who snapped her in her car.
French actress Julie Gayet, whose affair with President Francois Hollande made headlines worldwide, yesterday won a privacy case against a photographer who snapped her in her car.
A court in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre also fined two senior executives of French glossy magazine , which splashed the photograph only a week after revealing the affair in early January.
The court handed paparazzo Laurent Viers a suspended fine of €1,000 (HK$10,175) for taking the photo, which splashed with the caption: "It's in her white Citroen that Julie Gayet meets the president."
Carmine Perna, director general of publisher Mondadori Magazines France, and the magazine's editor-in-chief Laurence Pieau both received suspended fines of €3,000.
Under French law, the inside of a car is considered to be a private space. Pieau had earlier contested this, telling the court that "for me, a car is not a private space" but refused comment after yesterday's ruling.
"It's an important ruling," said Jean Ennochi, lawyer for the 41-year-old actress, adding it was the first time that officials from had been sentenced.
