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moremojo:

--- Quote from: louise van hine on February 01, 2008, 03:16:57 pm ---Not surprisingly, this video was part of a paparazzi "sting" which Ledger discovered during filming and which, if it had been released, could have allowed Heath to sue for millions, according to the article.  The photographers and paps had lured him to the party and offered him the drugs, then pumped him with questions about his drug history.  It never came to light during his life because he could have a slam dunk case of entrapment.

Is anyone surprised?
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A little, for the simple fact that the video purportedly shows one man actually snorting cocaine (or something that is meant to be seen as cocaine). Couldn't this man potentially face criminal charges, and couldn't the photogs and paps who were setting the whole thing up potentially be held criminally liable too, assuming that the cocaine was real?

Fran:
Michelle is a class act.  Period.  I hope that only good things happen to her and Matilda from here on out.

You know, it's too bad that Heath's family can't sue the people who made that video.  Heath apparently thought he was amongst friends.  It's sickening the way he was set up.  Whoever received that $200,000 should be ordered to donate that money to a charity designated by Heath's family.  The paparazzi should in no way benefit from such outrageous behavior.

Fran:

--- Quote from: moremojo on February 01, 2008, 04:46:08 pm ---A little, for the simple fact that the video purportedly shows one man actually snorting cocaine (or something that is meant to be seen as cocaine). Couldn't this man potentially face criminal charges, and couldn't the photogs and paps who were setting the whole thing up potentially be held criminally liable too, assuming that the cocaine was real?

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Scott, it didn't even have to be real cocaine.  All they needed was to get him on camera snorting whatever it was, and they would have achieved their goal.  All they needed was his willingness to do it and, of course, whatever self-incriminating comments he would make in the process.

I'm disgusted that people would stoop this low for money.

louisev:
The fact that he was lured into a stage situation and photographed there completely discredits whatever "news" value this might have had, and shows tabloid media at its most despicable. It also explains why, in this particular case, the Hollywood actors banded together to quash it.  it isn't news - it's was a photographed stunt.

Verona:
Gotta love their logic, though. I mean, I used to like me a beer or two (or three...) in my youth, but haven't touched a drop of anything in over 20 years.

So get me in a room with other people drinking and doing drugs, and get me to make the above statement... and suddenly I'm an alcoholic? And possibly a drug addict? All because I said I used to drink, and strangers around me are getting up to no good?

I think my head just exploded.

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