Celebrities such as Paris Hilton, who shares her schedule with paparazzi so they can shoot candid pictures, stick to their side of the Faustian pact, accepting that privacy is the price of fame. But for stars who dare to fight back, media vengeance is brutal.
Just ask Kate Moss, whose recent trial by tabloid makes Diaz's skirmish resemble a slap on the face with a budgie feather. Earlier this year, the 31-year-old model successfully sued the UK's Sunday Mirror after the tabloid printed a story that alleged she had collapsed in a cocaine-induced coma in 2001. The paper was forced to print an apology and paid Moss an undisclosed settlement.
Just two months later, the same newspaper plastered across its front page photos of Moss cutting and sniffing lines of white powder, along with graphic descriptions of her alleged drug use. The shots showed her rolling a bank note and "hoovering up every last grain of the class-A drug".
Even the Mirror's fellow newspapers conceded the revelations were pure revenge. The Independent said Mirror editor Richard Vallance and Stephen Moyes, the journalist who broke the drugs story, had been trying to acquire evidence of her drug use ever since the libel defeat.
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can you say, watergate?
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