Celebrity Rights can be argued both ways and if googled there is a decent amount of info available.
LINK:
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=celebrity+privacy+rights
A few things and not limited to...
"CELEBRITY RIGHTS TO PRIVACY".
USA:
1. Is the taking of a photo protected free speech?
Restricting the publication of photos will be quite difficult under the First Amendment, as the publication of photos is protected speech in many cases.
United States law is often dismissive of finding any privacy rights in public places.
5. Should celebrities have a right to privacy?
.....celebrities don't really consent to losing their privacy. That gives it a false sense of legitimacy. There's no contract that says that in order to be famous one has to surrender privacy. Why should being harassed or gossiped about be considered a legitimate job requirement? The fact that some celebrities make a lot of money does not legitimize it either.
Some argue that we learn from celebrity gossip -- it presents us with a way to....
BBC:
But how much privacy can, and should, celebrities - who make their living in the public eye - expect?
For years, the tabloid press has made its reputation on "exclusives" involving celebrities' private lives.
Stars frequently take out injunctions against newspapers preventing them from revealing possible indiscretions.
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Yet the relationship between celebrities and the media is such that, arguably, one cannot exist without the other.
'Delicate balance'
Jeremy King, editor of industry paper Media Week, says that although celebrities are in the public eye, it does not necessarily make them "fair game".
"It's a delicate balance between celebrities from the Y-list up to the D-list, who are quite happy to reveal their inner secrets, and the A- and B-list, who go about their business and guard their private lives.
"People are happily hacking to get exclusives from A-listers because they're slightly unusual.
"But if you court the media in the first place and don't like it when they say something nasty, then unfortunately once you push the toothpaste out of the tube it's hard to get it back in."
According to media commentator Mark Borkowski, celebrities need to realise that to a certain extent they are public property.
Despite this, he continues, it can still be possible for them to have a private life.
"If you want privacy, you can obtain it by keeping a delicate balance between the needs of promoting what you have to professionally - and how you conduct your life," he explains.
"You need to have a long-term commitment to the amount of fame you have generated.
"You can't switch it on and off, so you have to have a strategy of dealing with it."
Protection
The role of the PR machine is a key player in the issue.
On the one hand, a publicist may tip off the media as to their clients' whereabouts or promote their latest project.
On the other, a PR could be working hard to limit the damage after an unfavourable story.
Celebrity PR consultant Max Clifford says the biggest part of his business is protecting the image of his clients, not promotion.
"If I have a star on my books that has always desperately kept themselves private, then they deserve greater protection," he says.
The incessant need of the public to know what every celebrity is doing is phenomenal
Jeremy King, Media Week. "[But] if you use the media, you can't complain too much when the media uses you."
MY THOUGHTS:
It works both ways.
If Celebrities did not have the Media to promote themselves then they would not be famous or known, so in that respect, they avail themselves to less privacy whether they consent or not.
But it is not anyone's business what happens behind close doors - whether Media, family, friend, or a reader.
However, I reckon if the Media puts something out there first would it be so wrong for someone to follow up on that story (or not) with a reading? It is not like it would be going LIVE on TV or anything and as long as it is not defaming anyone or being vindictive is there really any harm.
It is just like some readers doing Tarot on OJ Simpson after the fact and years on.
There is a fine line and it is all about a person using her/his head. Good judgement.
DND