Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are going after a photograph company that was concerned of their paparazzi automotive chase!
As we’ve been following, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in addition to the Suits alum’s mom, Doria Ragland, had been adopted by a number of paps in NYC after leaving the 2023 Women of Vision Awards on the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Manhattan on Tuesday evening. While being pursued by “highly aggressive” photographers, they ended up on a two-hour chase across the metropolis and tried to make a break for it by switching vehicles and getting right into a yellow taxi. Unfortunately for them, it didn’t work and the cameras nonetheless discovered them. Now, they’re demanding one company at hand over all of the footage.
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According to a brand new letter obtained by TMZ on Thursday, the couple is claiming picture company Backgrid USA Inc. should give all of them photographs and movies of the “chase” for their very own safety functions, including through their attorneys:
“We hereby demand that Backgrid immediately provide us with copies of all photos, videos, and/or films taken last night by the freelance photographers after the couple left their event and over the next several hours.”
Welp. It’s positively not going to be that simple for them!
The firm clapped again HARD with a sassy reply! Backgrid’s attorneys utterly rejected the demand, arguing:
“In America, as I’m sure you know, property belongs to the owner of it: Third parties cannot just demand it be given to them, as perhaps Kings can do. Perhaps you should sit down with your client and advise them that his English rules of royal prerogative to demand that the citizenry hand over their property to the Crown were rejected by this country long ago. We stand by our founding fathers.”
THE REVOLUTIONARY SHADE!
Backgrid went on to say they’d 4 photographers on the scene, three in vehicles and one on a motorbike. They insisted the paps “had no intention of causing any distress or harm, as their only tool was their cameras.”
In a earlier assertion, the corporate additionally denied the chase being as severe because the couple made it out to be. They mentioned their freelance photographers’ involvement, explaining:
“According to the accounts given by these freelance contributors, they were covering the couple’s stay in New York City, including the possibility of a dinner after an award ceremony. They had no intention of causing any distress or harm, as their only tool was their cameras. A few of the photos even show Meghan Markle smiling inside a cab.”
They additionally blamed the chaos on Harry’s crew, saying one employee reported that “one of the four SUVs from Prince Harry’s security escort was driving in a manner that could be perceived as reckless” — however that in the end there have been “no near-collisions or near-crashes” through the incident, as Harry and Meghan’s assertion claimed.
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Now, clearly, that is coming from the picture company being blamed — which isn’t going to wish to admit any wrongdoing right here, so take all of it with a grain of salt. But should you’d wish to see a little bit of the chase for your self, have a look (beneath). You can see extra pictures HERE.
Hmm…
This explicit clip doesn’t appear too harmful, however we will perceive why Harry, Meghan, and Doria could be so scared. For one, it’s gotta be overwhelming to have that many individuals following you across the metropolis! But it’s additionally an eerie scenario once you recall how the 38-year-old’s mom Princess Diana died amid a paparazzi automotive chase in Paris in 1997. It should’ve been a really traumatic scenario for the Spare creator.
Also, the Archewell founders have been outspoken about not wanting the footage to unfold on-line. In their preliminary assertion in regards to the incident, they mentioned:
“Dissemination of these images, given the ways in which they were obtained, encourages a highly intrusive practice that is dangerous to all in involved.”
That mentioned, there’s no authorized cause as far as we will see for the corporate at hand over the contents. No lawsuit has been filed that will require them to take action. So if Harry and Meghan actually need the footage, they could have to fork up some money — however we’ve a sense they’d fairly sue first than willingly pay for the pics! That, too, would perhaps encourage extra chases — particularly in the event that they paid high greenback! Thoughts? Sound OFF (beneath)!
[Image via Netflix/YouTube & MEGA/WENN]
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