Are you certain she released it? I believe she denied doing so. While release of the audio certainly benefited Basinger, there are a number of possibilities as to how it was released...Basinger's attorney or paralegal, Family Court clerks, etc. Despite the juicy tidbits TMZ.com releases from time to time (they 'hit the big time with the release of the Mel Gibson DUI story), they are still basically gossip mongers, and I doubt that paying a lowly courthouse clerk the equivalent of their annual salary cost them anything compared to the hits they got and the free publicity they received via the Baldwin tapes.
No, of course not. But how would that paralegal get access to that message? Are you suggesting that this was given to the attorney and that a paralegal got ahold of it? Do know the kind of breach of ethics it entails? Would you retain an attorney who let this happen? If this is the case, why don't we hear more messages of cell phones of celebrities?
We are all speculating here. We do know that Baldwin is being pilloried and has been denied virtually any contact with his child. The Basinger team has already used this as a weapon to deny him total contact with the child. Who benefits here?