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Adele’s son awarded damages over paparazzi photos

By | Published on Thursday 24 July 2014

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Adele’s one year old son Angelo has been awarded damages off a photo agency which took pictures of him and his parents without their permission. The singer argued that the photographs infringed the child’s privacy.

The legal action was launched after Corbis Images UK shopped a number of photographs featuring Angelo to the UK press. These, said Adele’s lawyer Jenny Afia yesterday, captured his “milestone moments, such as his first family outing and his first trip to playgroup, [and] were photographed and published worldwide expressly against his family’s wishes”.

Afia added: “The parents’ view is that these images were of routine, everyday family occasions which the paparazzi has no right to intrude upon, profit from and file away in picture libraries for future reference and use”.

Corbis agreed to pay undisclosed damages, which will be held in trust for Angelo, and legal costs, as well as agreeing not to use the photos again in future. The company also passed on the names of the freelance photographers who took the pictures, to whom Afia’s Schillings law firm has now written, warning them of further legal action if they target Angelo again.



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