By Zelda Venter
"Advocate Barbie" and her partner have taken Rapport newspaper to court in a bid to stop it from publishing explicit photographs.
In an urgent application before the Pretoria High Court on Thursday, Cezanne Prinsloo and her common-law husband, advocate Dirk Prinsloo, asked Judge Eberhardt Bertelsmann to interdict Rapport from publishing "any article or comment relating to alleged or real private pictures of them. In particular, photos that had recently come into Rapport's possession."
Rapport had given an indication that it would not publish the material because it was not fit for a national Sunday newspaper. The newspaper said the photos had been distributed among children in Centurion.
Judge Bertelsmann turned down the couple's application for the newspaper not to print an article regarding the issue. He said it was impossible to prohibit in advance what might be worth publishing on Sunday.
But he noted Rapport's undertaking not to publish the pictures. He said the images were clearly undesirable, and depicted scenes allegedly between the couple and a third party.
Dirk Prinsloo said a Rapport reporter contacted him on October 26 and told him he had "terrible" pictures of them in "clear" sexual deeds with another woman.
"He asked my comments, upon which I stated I am not aware of these pictures. I deny their authenticity and, in any event, if they were authentic, it would amount to one of the greatest breaches of our constitutional right to privacy," Prinsloo said.