INEXISTENCIA DE INTROMISIÓN ILEGÍTIMA EN LOS DERECHOS AL HONOR Y A LA INTIMIDAD DE UN CONOCIDO TORERO POR LA INFORMACIÓN DIFUNDIDA SOBRE SU VIDA SENTIMENTAL Y LA MUERTE DE SU MADRE.

Abstract

News coverage of the private life of a well-known bullfighter, revealing particulars about his recent separation, new romance and the circumstances surrounding the death of his mother, also a person of acknowledged public renown, cannot be regarded as an illegal invasion of privacy. With his behaviour, he wilfully negated the privacy of his love-life, if not completely, at least with regard to his separation and new romantic relationship, which is the essential context of the controversial stories. Nor may the reports on his mother be regarded as an illegal invasion of the plaintiff's privacy, because she was a famous person in her own right, a regular in what are called «celebrity gossip» magazines, and she had voluntarily reduced her own sphere of privacy greatly.