The wedding photos of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
New York and London, 2000 to 2007
This case is a work of fiction. The characters, names, places and events in the game do not portray real people. The account below is a factual summary, based on public sources, of the case that served as inspiration.
In November 2000, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones married at the Plaza Hotel in New York and sold exclusive rights to the photos to OK! magazine for one million pounds. A photographer slipped into the reception without permission, and the rival magazine Hello! published the images first.
The couple and OK! sued Hello!; the dispute reached the House of Lords, which in 2007 upheld OK!'s right to exclusivity and awarded the magazine damages. The case became a landmark on privacy and confidential information in British law.
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Lake Como
Villa Aurelia, on the shores of Lake Como, 11:35 pm. Sandro Viale, photographer at the wedding of actress Ludovica Ferrante and tenor Matteo Rinaldi, was found dead in the shallow water by the villa's pier.
The game borrows the photos of a celebrity wedding sold in secret to a rival magazine. The photographer's death, the characters and the outcome are fiction.
