Sienna Miller Nude Pictures Win Actress Record Privacy Payout

The Sun and The News of the World were forced to pay the actress Sienna Miller damages yesterday for publishing nude photographs taken against her will during the filming of a movie.

Newsgroup, the Murdoch-owned subsidiary of News International which owns the tabloid newspapers, contributed to a payment of £37,500 plus legal costs along with the Xposure Photo Agency, settling the dispute after Miller sued for invasion of privacy following the pictures' publication in October.

The payout is believed to be the biggest of its sort for an invasion of privacy. The companies have agreed not to republish any of the photographs and have agreed to delete all copies of them.

However, the Factory Girl and Layer Cake star is still suing the individual photographer, who took the pictures during filming of Hippie Hippie Shake.

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Sienna, who has gone topless in films, for a calender and for Vanity Fair, has said, ""As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job. And I'm fascinated by people who are extroverted, so I guess I've got a lot more nudity to come."

See the photos that are the subject of the privacy claim

Comments

[Harrier]

She is beautiful and I'm glad to see that people on the set as well as the companies publishing them were nailed. The actress has specific contractual requirements to what can be used and published. Free loaders and leaches who try taking advantage of this to get a quick buck need to hammered into the ground and understand the actress has not signed a contract with them or posed or disrobed for them and their cameras. Sneak a pix and you will have your sex organs ripped off

[TJS]

Miller is self-righteously upset because these third party pictures might lessen her market for selling her own nude photos. It's a shame the judge and jury weren't in Pittsburgh!

[ControlledBurn]

There is a subtle difference between making a living and hosting a parasite. Some people never get that and have to blame the victim.

[sparkey]

I'll look at the photos and judge as to whether she has the right to sue.

[truthyguy]

I always like to read the Entertainment page of HuffPo to keep track of what the bombos are doing.

Suggestion to Miller: If you don't want people to see you nude, don't take your clothes off in public. Contrary to what they told you, it is not critical to the story.

[Mort]

Is she gonna sue everyone that sees the movie, too? Sienna, if you don't want people to see you naked, stop taking off your clothes in public!

[wadenelson1]

This is beyond me. She WILLINGLY appears on a studio stage naked, and then wins $50K because someone takes a picture.