Paris Hilton is suing the website that has published naked photos of her, in an attempt to shut it down. Visitors to ParisExposed.Com are able to pay to view raunchy snaps, home videos, diary entries and pictures of the heiress’ passport and personal belongings, obtained from a storage container. The items were sold at auction by the storage firm, who claimed its fees hadn’t been paid for two years - but Hilton alleges a removal company was supposed to pay.
The “shocked and surprised” 25-year-old claims the belongings were put into storage in 2005 after she and sister NICKY moved out of a house that had been burgled. A court statement from Hilton, part of a lawsuit filed yesterday (29JAN07) in Los Angeles, reads, “I was appalled to learn that people are exploiting me and my sisters’ private personal belongings for commercial gain.” Hilton is calling for the closure of the website on the grounds it invades her privacy and exposes her and Nicky to people who could “to steal my identity, or even worse, to harass or stalk me.”
She has filed copyright registrations for three writings among her belongings, and accuses the website of copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges the items were bought by NABIL and NABILA HANISS for $2,775 (GBP1,500) and sold to BARDIA PERSA for $10 million (GBP5.25 million).
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January 30th, 2007
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The website does not care if they sell aything, that’s just a ruse to try to circumvent the copyright laws under which Paris Hilton is protected.
As my Dad (a hotshot lawyer) pointed out right away - if they get only a million people to pay $40 it will make them $40 million dollars richer in no time.
These people have no conscience and are exploiting Paris Hilton’s popularity.
Apparently they are from the Middle East, Persa appears of Iranian descend.
My heart goes out to Paris. She doesn’t deserve people rummaging through her private mementos.
I think the website is down.
But my heart goes out to Paris.