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Article: The Model Versus The Mirror; Naomi Campbell Sues Over Drug Story
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- The Washington Post
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- February 16, 2002
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Naomi Campbell has posed, with and without clothing, for hundreds
of magazines. She has discussed her sex life on national television
with Barbara Walters. She circles the globe on publicity jaunts, and
maintains a platoon of PR agents to promote her restaurants, her
jeans, her fragrance and her modeling career.
Does such a celebrity have any "reasonable expectation of
privacy?"
Amid the Gothic splendor of Courtroom 13 in London's Royal Courts
of Justice, that question has turned into a gripping legal drama this
week. The 31-year-old model charges that the London newspaper the
Mirror violated her privacy last year when it revealed her drug
addiction. The Mirror's defense is essentially that ...