Segolene Royal Bikini Pictures in French ‘Closer’ Magazine

Friday, July 13, 2007, 9:06
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Defeated French presidential candidate Segolene Royal is suing Paris Match magazine “Closer” for publishing photos of her relaxing in a swimsuit on a Mediterranean beach, her lawyer said.

(Pictures/Photos of Miss Segolene Royal; from from left to right polipundit.com, canalblog.com and outsidethebeltway.com respective image copyrights)

This week’s edition of celebrity magazine “Closer” included a cover picture of Royal on holiday in bathing suit, cap and sunglasses as part of a survey of “50 stars at the beach”.

Inside were more photos of the svelte 53year-old in a striped swimsuit, along with her 21-year-old bikini-clad daughter Clemence, wading in shal low water and sunbathing on the beach. Miss Royal’s lawyer, JeanPierre Mignard, said his client was suing the magazine under France’s strict privacy laws for taking unauthorised photographs and for invasion of privacy.

Condemning the photos as “vulgar voyeurism,” he said Miss Royal would seek “significant” damages and demand the withdrawal of newspaper stand posters using the pictures to advertise Paris Match.

Miss Royal was defeated in May 2007’s French presidential election by the rightwing Mr Nicolas Sarkozy.