This couple wanted keepsake erotic photos of themselves and hired a photographer to take them for $900 - but months later, the wife spotted a poster of the couple posing intimately and unclad. They were thrilled even less when they discovered it didn't stop there: the couple's erotic images showed up on the photographer's Web site, in an erotic magazine (Erospheres), and even on his business cards. Now the couple wants a court injunction against Michel Letourneau, a St. Constant photographer, stopping his campaign and retrieving the negatives. The couple says in legal papers they filed last week they're easily identifiable in the images, causing extreme embarrassment since the husband works in sales for a multinational firm and the wife is a day care worker. They did the four-hour photo shoot in May 199, after meeting the photographer at a Love and Seduction Show, says the Montreal Gazette.
LONDON -Soho ladies of the evening went on strike March 8 to mark International Women's Day and battle back against bids to throw them out of the famed red-light district. The English Collective of Prostitutes says the local council has threatened their landlord with "compulsory purchase of properties" and police intimidated them and entered their homes without proper legal consent. ``We refuse to be divided into 'good' and 'bad' girls,'' the group says in a formal statement. ``We are all the same women, integral to our communities as mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, partners, neighbors, friends -- caring and providing for our families.'' The ladies of the evening also say they're critical to Soho's economy and have every right to stay in business there - and, if evicted, over one hundred women would be forced homeless and out to the streets to work. But London police tell Reuters that with women from the former Soviet Union and other formerly Communist European nations being smuggled into Britain for prostitution, sex policing is a priority.
VAN NUYS, CA - He's a middle school teacher who learned the wrong lesson from those antique nude photos of a pre-fame Dr. Laura Schlessinger - he's been fined $5,000 and sentenced to sixty days' house arrest, not to mention surrendering his home computers. The man tried to extort $8,000 from a former girl friend by threatening to release nudes of her on the Internet. Brian Bailey of Tarzana posted the nude photos after the former girl friend refused to pay him. He pleaded no contest March 6 and also faces up to five years probation - which could be cut to three years and a misdemeanor reduction after eighteen months. Bailey reportedly told the Los Angeles Times by telephone he did it only to reclaim money he says the former girl friend owed him and got the idea after reading about Schlessinger losing a court fight to keep the pre-fame nudes of her from going online. The photos ended up on a site known as an outlet for voyeur and amateur nudes, the paper says.
--- Compiled by Humphrey Pennyworth
