Publisher, photographer probed over Kate photos
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April 26, 2013, Friday
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THE publisher of a French celebrity magazine has been placed under formal investigation for breach of privacy over the publication of topless pictures of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge.
The photographer who snapped the pictures of the Duchess Kate Middleton in the summer last year and a regional daily were also put under investigation, the last step in France before being charged.
Closer magazine, a weekly round-up of celebrity gossip, published in September a series of photos of the Duchess, the wife of Prince William, topless on holidays in southern France.
The photos showed Kate slipping off her bikini top, relaxing on a sun lounger and at one point pulling down the back of her bikini bottoms.
Buckingham Palace called the photo spread a "grotesque" invasion of the royal couple's privacy.
However, no major British publication carried the photos.
The publisher of the magazine, the French branch of Italy's Mondadori, and the paparazzi who snapped the photos from a distance were put under formal investigation earlier this month, a judicial source said.
Mondadori in a statement said the company "was not aware of any new developments in addition to what is already known on this matter."
The regional daily La Provence, which published pictures of Prince William and his wife in swimming suits during the same holiday, was put under formal investigation this week, the source said.
An investigation does not necessarily lead to formal charges.
The first major press incident involving William and Kate brought back memories of William's mother Diana being hounded by paparazzi in France in the hours and days before her fatal car crash there in 1997.
The photographer who snapped the pictures of the Duchess Kate Middleton in the summer last year and a regional daily were also put under investigation, the last step in France before being charged.
Closer magazine, a weekly round-up of celebrity gossip, published in September a series of photos of the Duchess, the wife of Prince William, topless on holidays in southern France.
The photos showed Kate slipping off her bikini top, relaxing on a sun lounger and at one point pulling down the back of her bikini bottoms.
Buckingham Palace called the photo spread a "grotesque" invasion of the royal couple's privacy.
However, no major British publication carried the photos.
The publisher of the magazine, the French branch of Italy's Mondadori, and the paparazzi who snapped the photos from a distance were put under formal investigation earlier this month, a judicial source said.
Mondadori in a statement said the company "was not aware of any new developments in addition to what is already known on this matter."
The regional daily La Provence, which published pictures of Prince William and his wife in swimming suits during the same holiday, was put under formal investigation this week, the source said.
An investigation does not necessarily lead to formal charges.
The first major press incident involving William and Kate brought back memories of William's mother Diana being hounded by paparazzi in France in the hours and days before her fatal car crash there in 1997.
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