Actress sues magazine over reports of affair with Hollande

French actress Julie Gayet sued Closer magazine over its report that she is having an affair with President Francois Hollande. Gayet is seeking 50,000 euros in damages and 4,000 euros in legal costs from the magazine over a report she claimed breached France’s privacy legislation. If she wins, Closer will have to publish the legal verdict on its cover page. At a press conference Tuesday, Hollande expressed his “total indignation” over Closer’s publication of photos showing the two arriving separately for secret trysts at a borrowed flat. Even if forced to pay Gayet, the magazine still stands to earn big. Earlier this week, it said it was on track to sell 600,000 copies, twice its usual circulation. The magazine promised another series of pictures and new revelations about the affair in its next edition.

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