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Photog Must Pay Damages for Diana Make-Out Shots

Dodi's dad gets $6,000 for privacy breach

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 19, 2008 4:02 AM CDT

(Newser) – A British photographer has been ordered to pay damages for snapping shots of Princess Diana kissing boyfriend Dodi Fayed. A Paris court levied $6,000 in fines and $8,000 in damages to be paid to Dodi's dad, Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of the yacht where the the two were photographed canoodling just days before they died in a Paris car crash in 1997. A French newspaper must pay the same amount for breaking privacy laws.

Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion Dodi Fayed, walk on a pontoon in the French Riviera resort of St. Tropez.
Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion Dodi Fayed, walk on a pontoon in the French Riviera resort of St. Tropez.   (AP Photo)
Diana.
Diana.   (Getty Images)
Mohamed Al Fayed, the father of Dodi Fayed, leaves the High Court in London, at the start of a lunch break in a summing up hearing for the inquest of the death of Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, in this  Monday, March 31, 2008 file photo. A coroner's...
Mohamed Al Fayed, the father of Dodi Fayed, leaves the High Court in London, at the start of a lunch break in a summing up hearing for the inquest of the death of Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi...   (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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