Hugh Grant, Max Mosley and Privacy
There’s an interesting story out of the U.K. that is related to Max Mosley’s attempt at gaining financial restitution from NotW for invasion of privacy when they printed the nazi spank-fest featuring Mosley and five prostitutes.
Actor Hugh Grant just won a U.K. court judgment for invasion of his, Liz Hurley and her husband Arun Nayar and accepted £58,000 damages over photographs taken of them on holiday in the Maldives.
According to the BBC story the trio selected the islands strictly for the privacy and the seclusion the private resort claimed was available.
Two thoughts on this; 1. What the hell made these three think anywhere on the planet offered any type of seclusion when your at their level of star status, and 2. Why isn’t the the so called “private resort” held culpable? Looks from this distance they promised something they couldn’t deliver.
Anyway, I wonder what this says about The Littlest Pervert’s case against the NotW because of the obvious privacy connection in the two cases?
I suspect a lot, but I say that knowing little on the issue within the U.K. ither than they are much stricter than most places on the planet
Regardless of the final outcome of Mosley’s suit it should have little to do with the FIA decision considering his actions since the the story first broke. He’ continued to lie out his posterior and spin faster than a frog in a blender.
Funny thing is Mosley could learn something from Grant.
Hugh Grant was the toast of Tinseltown until he was hit by a scandal after his encounter with a Hollywood prostitute in 1995, but now he has been embraced by U.S. audiences because of the stylish way he handled the issue.
Grant said on Larry King Live at the time, “I could accept some of the things that people have explained, ’stress,’ ‘pressure,’ ‘loneliness’ - that that was the reason. But that would be false. In the end you have to come clean and say ‘I did something dishonorable, shabby and goatish.’”
Mosley could learn something, but he’s too bull-headed, stubborn, drunk with the power his position affords him and just plain stupid.
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Jeesh marc you are cruel……expecting poor Max to appear on Larry King & confess all….LOL.
Legal suit;shmeegal suit I say, Murdoch has platoons of lawyers let Max fight them if he wants….but he can do it on this own time & his own dime, not as FIA President.
Hey larry king would be just as good as appearing in the Jordanian desert.
King reads his interview questions straight off a paper and never asks a followup question. Max could write the questions hand them to larry and away they go on the interview of the century. (in their minds)
In all the detail and thought set out by Mr. Justice in ruling for Mosley, it was surprising that he never reached the point of balancing the interest of FIA members in knowing that Mosley had a secret life against the intrusion of his privacy. In the opening, the Justice lays out the balancing test, but when finally the topic arrives in parags. 122 & 123, he concludes that if there was no Nazi theme, then that removes all need to balance the private with the public interest. Maybe the NOTW’s lawyers gave away a general, public interest defense, but if not, then for the court never to balance one person’s desire for privacy about illicit conduct against the public interest in knowing about the character of public figures is ridiculous.