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Nicole Kidman Seeks Restraining Order
« on: Jan 26^th, 2005, 8:08pm »

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Nicole Kidman Seeks Restraining Order
Jan 26, 9:59 AM EST

The Associated Press

SYDNEY, Australia - Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman has asked a court to issue a restraining order against two Sydney photographers, their lawyer said Wednesday.

Lawyer Roland Day said his client Jamie Fawcett and another photographer whom he declined to name had been served papers filed on behalf of the Australian-born actress notifying them that the application would be heard in Waverly Local Court in Sydney on Thursday.

Police officers were called to Kidman's home on Sunday after an electronic listening device was found near a security vehicle that was monitoring her Sydney mansion from the street.

The bug was apparently discovered when security officers searched the grounds in preparation for Kidman's return to Sydney to film her new movie, Eucalyptus.

Kidman's chief bodyguard Neil McMaster said Monday that surveillance footage taken from the house provided "conclusive evidence" that the bug had been intentionally planted to intercept conversations between Kidman and her bodyguards outside the mansion.

It was not immediately clear whether Kidman's application for a restraining order was related to the bugging incident.

"Ms. Kidman appears to be trying to control how the media covers her personal and public life," Day said Wednesday.

He said his clients were merely doing their jobs, and that granting Kidman's request for a restraining order would "have the dangerous consequence of encouraging anyone under the scrutiny of the media to do the same thing."

Kidman's father, Sydney psychologist Antony Kidman, said Tuesday that photographers had been staking out his superstar daughter's home since she arrived in Australia on Sunday.

"She's concerned that people will not let her alone she's here to make a film, she wants to promote Australia and she's almost a prisoner in her own house as a result," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. television. "I would be very pleased if people would just let her get on with her life she makes herself available for pictures in many instances."

Kidman has said that she sometimes wears wigs and uses fake accents so she can go out without being bothered by paparazzi.

Kidman has also been pursued by eavesdroppers in the past. Paparazzo Eric Ford recorded a telephone conversation in 1998 between Kidman and her then husband Tom Cruise and sold it to the U.S. newspaper The Globe.

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Re: Nicole Kidman Seeks Restraining Order
« Reply #1 on: Jan 26^th, 2005, 8:11pm »

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I fail to understand how the press continues to get away with things that would considered illegal by anyone else under the claim they are "just doing their job". What would happen if I sat out in front of someone's house and tried to take pictures of them inside and set up hidden microphones in their yard to pick up signals from their house and record private conversations? Why is the press allowed to literally stalk people & violate peeping tom laws under the badge of "freedom of press"? This makes no sense to me and I just don't understand why the courts continue to condone behaviour that is clearly above and beyond doing their duty of reporting the news.

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Re: Nicole Kidman Seeks Restraining Order
« Reply #2 on: Jan 27^th, 2005, 8:23am »

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I agree. What they did was beyond "reporting" and taking pictures. Stalking, indeed.

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Re: Nicole Kidman Seeks Restraining Order
« Reply #3 on: Jan 27^th, 2005, 8:33am »

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Well said rhune!

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Re: Nicole Kidman Seeks Restraining Order
« Reply #4 on: Jan 27^th, 2005, 10:32am »

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Rhune - I emphatically agree. It's gotten really scary for celebrities of late. Somewhere along the way, the press crossed the line. I'd like to see them get more than their hands slapped for this kind of thing.

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Re: Nicole Kidman Seeks Restraining Order
« Reply #5 on: Jan 27^th, 2005, 11:12am »

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The real problem is that not only are the press crossing that line, the courts are allowing them to redraw where the line is at. In my mind it is just not ok for the press to have a different set of laws than the general public. I wonder how many more incidents will occur where someone like Diana dies in a car crash while running from the press before some of this comes to a halt. Now I am not a big Diana fan personally, but I think what happened in that particular situation was a travesty and if the press were held more accountable to NORMAL laws this kind of thing would not be happening. How disgusting is it that they are justifying their "right" to put hidden microphones in this woman's yard?

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