Judge throws out Streisand lawsuit

news.com.au ^ | Dec 4, 2003

[hotpotato]

A JUDGE today threw out a $US10 million lawsuit brought by superstar Barbra Streisand against an amateur photographer who snapped her cliff-top mansion from the air.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Allan Goodman dismissed the notoriously private diva's invasion of privacy suit, ruling that her action infringed on the right to freedom of speech.

Software millionaire and photographer Ken Adelman said he was "ecstatic" that the suit filed against him and his wife Gabriella in May had failed.

"It was a clean sweep,"he said.

Adelman said he and his wife had taken pictures of Streisand's home that overlooks the coast at Malibu, near Los Angeles, from a helicopter while cataloguing the erosion of California's coastline.

The couple said the picture of the home was just one among 12,000 images of the coast that they posted on their website as part of the survey and had asked the judge in July to throw out the case.

Streisand had sued claiming the posting of the picture on the Internet put her privacy and security at risk and her attorney branded Adelman a "peeping tom".

The singer, actress and producer claimed the picture revealed details of the house that could not be seen from a public vantage point and said she had gone to great lengths to protect her home from prying eyes.

On her website, barbrastreisand.com, she admitted she was "thin-skinned", but said: "We live in a country where all people are supposed to have equal rights ... we have to be vigilant to protect those rights."

Adelman's attorney, Richard Kendall, had told the court in July that the star's suit "chills (Adelman's) free speech" rights and said Streisand should be accustomed to such behaviour.

"For much of her life, Streisand has made herself, quite aggressively, a public figure," he said. "This isn't a case of someone saying, 'Barbra Streisand, $US15.95 dollars, come and get it," he added.

Streisand, 61, who is married to actor James Brolin, has been a major star since the 1960s and is known for such films as 1968's Funny Girl and the 1970s' pictures The Way We Were with Robert Redford and A Star is Born

[smith288]

[hotpotato]

Upon hearing that her lawsuit is thrown out, Bab's pees her pants.

[BulletBobCo]

Freak'n Dumbass

[Bonaparte]

"well... I'm only using what is going to exist anyhow...."

Wow, thanks Babs! Now we can start drilling in ANWR, right? I mean, those rigs are going to exist there anyhow, correctomundo? Gotta go, Babsie, gotta call my evil friends at Halliburton. Thanks, again!

[Bonaparte]

"12. Hillary Clinton entrance."

Hahahahaha, Registered is the man aka El Hombre!

[Revolting cat!]

[hotpotato]

Streisand decries 'censorship' of 'Reagans'

Wonder if it's at all possible Babs sees the irony.

[FormerACLUmember]

On her website and elsewhere, mega-hypocrite Streisand brags what a great environmental activist she is!

Once, just once, the justice system has actually worked beautifully. Babs' monstous buttocks and mouth (which is which?) made such tempting targets!

BTW, check out the Streisand property photo carefully (click through on Drudge). You will see a large drainage pipe dumping waste onto the public beach below. The pipe is below the red flower bed half way down the cliff on the left side of the property. As a self appointed pontificating environmentalist, Streisand's credentials are more than a tad suspect.

[Paul Atreides]

Get ready for her next screed, on her website, blaming this ruling on W.

[Revolting cat!]

It's gonna be a blue Christmas at the Streisand adobe this year. First the Missus gets his cinematic masterpiece dumped on an off-off-Broadway network nobody watches, now this. What's next, more erosion requiring another facelift? Hope Babs goes to confession on Christmas Eve and asks forgiveness!

[hotpotato]

Once, just once, the justice system has actually worked beautifully.

And *that* happened in California!

[Diddley]

See-B.S.,

ROFL

[Paul Atreides]

Barbra Streisand, aka, B.S. Plenty.

[FormerACLUmember]

Its all Bush's fault!!!! LOL

[alrea]

we care about poor folks

[NewLand]

BAB'S WORLD HAS BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN...

[battousai]

Wow how touching she lives just like the rest of us and really knows how it is to be an ordinary working Joe.

[Paul Atreides]

I literally look for her to make that claim.

[FormerACLUmember]

Streisand and the rest of the 5 Minute Hate crew will indeed blame Bush for her defeats. As if Babs were so important that Bush gives her one-trillionth the fawning concern the Clintons used to give her!

[NewYorker]

Modest home of Barbra Streisand, humble spokesperson for the Party of the Little Guy.

Good one.