The Supreme Court has decided to let a lawsuit proceed against Hustler magazine over nude photographs it published of Nancy Benoit that were published after she was killed by her husband, pro wrestling superstar Chris Benoit.
The court denied Hustler’s appeal on Monday. Benoit murdered his wife and their son, Daniel, before killing himself back in 2007.
Hustler later published 20-year-old nude pics of Nancy after the deaths hit the mainstream media.
Her family filed a lawsuit against the Larry Flynt Publishing Group, the company that publishes Hustler, in which they claimed that Nancy, a model and former wrestler, had asked the photographer to destroy the photographs right after they had been taken.
A federal judge had previously ruled in favor of Hustler back in October 2008, dismissing the lawsuit and concluding that the magazine could print the pics as her death was a “legitimate matter of public interest and concern.”
In 2009, however, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the judge’s ruling, saying the mag had no right to publish the pics.
The magazine claims it had a First Amendment right to publish the pictures. You can check some of them out here and here.
The case is LFP Publishing v. Toffoloni, 09-625. Stay tuned.
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