Free-on-bail director Roman Polanski has filed a lawsuit alleging that his privacy has been violated by nosy photographers camped outside his Swiss chalet, where he’s currently living under electronically monitored house arrest. He’s seeking £700,000 and, hilariously, he just might get it since the complaint was filed in celebrity-friendly Paris, which has some of the world’s strictest privacy laws. If he wins, it could spell the end of exceptional photojournalism like this.
Roman Polanski sues photographers for ‘invading privacy’ during Swiss house arrest [Telegraph UK]