Hollywood stars signed deal with ‘publisher of pornography’

CATHERINE ZETA JONES and Michael Douglas signed an exclusive wedding pictures deal with a publisher whose main business is pornography, it was claimed at the High Court in London yesterday.

In a terse exchange at the start of Day 18 of the Hollywood stars’ damages action, Northern and Shell, publishers of OK! magazine, came under fire from rival Hello!.

James Price QC, for Hello!, which is being sued for a total of £2.25m for publishing wedding pictures snatched by the paparazzi, told Mr Justice Lindsay: “Northern and Shell’s business, to put it bluntly, is pornography.”