Valerie Trierweiler, erstwhile companion of President Hollande is well-known to take exception to the "presse people" (celebrity magazines) publishing details of her private life and asking the courts to ban publication or award her damages. Usually the basis is that there are lies in the stories. Now Closer magazine (which broke the story about Hollande and Julie Fayret) has asked the court to rule that Mme Trierweiler has no right to sue the "presse people" when she has laid bare her own private life, which may also include some untruths.
One imagines that the courts will refuse to rule on an apparently frivolous action, but gossip columnists say that "celebrities" are quaking in their boots at the prospect of the press having unfettered right to publish stories and rumours which they (the celebs) or their publicity agents have not planted themselves.
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