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Jennifer Aniston topless photos land paparazzi in trouble
Jennifer Aniston sues magazines, photographer for shooting her topless at her home.
BY A CORRESPONDENT
16 Dec, 2005:
Jennifer Aniston topless photos may be the toast of People magazine and New York Post, but the photographer who clicked her topless photos is in for trouble.
A GQ magazine cover which appeared last year which named Jennifer Aniston as Woman of the Year
Peter Brandt, who clicked the infamous Jennifer Aniston topless pics said in an interview with ABC News that he sent the topless pictures without the intention of publishing the semi-nude pictures. He said he is not interested in skin flicks, which is why he did not send them to any skin mag. He said the photos happened to be among a bunch he had sent to magazines.
Jennifer Aniston, who split with Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt last year is suing the photographer for violation of privacy. Jennifer has also asked the court that the publishers be prevented from printing her topless photos and making money out of it.
The Jennifer Aniston lawsuit claims that the paparazzi must have shot topless photo her from "a great distance, with unlawful, invasive and intrusive methods."
The photographer Peter Brandt denies this. He said the topless pictures were shot when he was camping outside her house hoping to shoot pictures of her with her boyfriend Vince Vaughan. As he was waiting, Jennifer Aniston emerged from the house topless.
"When I saw her come out topless, I go, 'Oh, God, this is not what I want, this is not what people want to buy anyway,'" he told ABC News.
However, the photographer said that sending it to publications, even without the intention of publishing them, may have been a mistake.
He also shifted some of the blame to Jennifer Aniston, saying she is the one who went out topless and that he did not go around looking for it.
Besides the photographer, Jennifer Aniston is also suing the magazines which printed her topless photos, though the photographer who shot her claims that he did not sell those pics and make money.
According to Peter Brandt, he was on a public street, about 300 yards from Jennifer Aniston's house, hoping to shoot her with Vince Vaughan. He said that Jennifer has no fencing around her backyard, and therefore cannot claim that she was expecting privacy there.
Peter Brandt also said that editorial judgment on whether the Jennifer Aniston semi-nude photographs should have been published or not vests with the magazine editors, not himself.
Though he has been sued for shooting the topless pictures, Peter says that he has not done anything illegal, and is still within his rights if he wants to sell Jennifer Aniston topless shots. He says that he is an editorial photographer and have no intention of selling it to an adult magazine.
"She exposed herself to everybody in the neighborhood. I happened to have a camera so I wouldn't have had a problem," he said.
In an earlier case, Jennifer Aniston had sued a different photographer for climbing a neighbor's wall and photographing her sunbathing topless. These semi-nude photos had appeared in several magazines. photos ran in several publications.
Jennifer's lawyer John Lavely warned magazines that publication of photographs "showing Aniston topless or in the act of taking off or putting on her top" would expose those titles to substantial monetary damages. In a letter, he wrote that the topless photos were taken using a powerful telephoto lens from a perch more than a mile away.
BY A CORRESPONDENT
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