PARIS MATCH IS FINED $8,300 FOR USING DIANA-DODI PHOTO
A judge in Paris convicted a French magazine editor of invasion of privacy Tuesday for publishing a picture of Princess Diana taken 10 days before her death that appeared to show her embracing her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed.The judge also ordered Roger Therond, chief editor of Paris Match magazine, to pay a fine of $8,300 and publish the news of the judgment in the weekly. The case had been filed against Paris Match by Mohamed al Fayed, Dodi's father.Diana, Dodi and their driver...
Paris Match: MITTERRAND TRIED TO HALT PHOTO SPREAD
French President Francois Mitterrand tried to stop Paris-Match from publishing pictures of his illegitimate daughter, Mazarine, but the weekly went ahead, sources close to him said Friday.The sources said Mitterrand was told last month that Paris-Match planned to print the photographs, and his office appealed to the magazine not to do so "We were informed three weeks ago by Paris-Match of such a project. After we made an approach opposing publication, the editors of Paris-Match...
Paris Match: Confirman 'flechazo bajo contrato'
La revista Paris Match asegura que la relación entre Copperfield y Schiffer sí fue arreglada PARIS (AFP).- La revista semanal francesa Paris Match defiende, en su próximo número, el rigor de su investigación sobre el contrato que originó el encuentro entre la top model Claudia Schiffer y el mago David Copperfield.La publicación semanal afirma no haber recibido hasta ahora el oficial requerimiento, que el mago norteamericano habría presentado el pasado 24 de julio en Los Angeles, en...
Paris Match: Media
Mitterrand 'Expose' Irritates the French
'France has passed from good old Catholic indulgence to Anglo-Saxon puritanism,' complains one editor.
For two decades, French journalists and the nation's high and mighty kept this scandalous secret: President Francois Mitterrand, a married man, had a mistress and an illegitimate daughter.So when Paris Match published that fact earlier this month, along with a photograph of Mitterrand and his 20-year-old daughter, the outcry was, understandably, deafening.But it wasn't the affair that turned out to be the scandal. No one criticized that. And few even seemed to...
Paris Match: A NATION CHALLENGED: PARIS
French Reporter Tells of Days Held in Jail by the Taliban
During the 25 days he was imprisoned by Afghanistan's Taliban authorities, Michel Peyrard, a French journalist, watched the makeshift jail where he was held fill with other prisoners. Some of the new arrivals at the detention center in Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan, he said, were just beggars in rags or mentally ill. One young man was there because he had shaved his beard. Others were mere children. But, many, he writes, were men of stature suspected of disloyalty and...