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Paparazzo Snaps Back at Aniston
The naked truth: The shutterbug who snapped photos of a topless Jennifer Aniston is sorry. Sort of.
Peter Brandt told ABC News Radio Tuesday that he never intended to sell the titillating pictures, but that sending them to publications along with other photos was "maybe my mistake."
Brandt claims he broke no laws in taking the pictures and that the former Friends star was at least partially to blame.
"She's the one who went out there topless," Brandt said. "I didn't go looking for it.
"When I saw her come out topless, I go, 'Oh, God, this is not what I want, this is not what people want to buy anyway.' "
Aniston's lawyers filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court last Friday, alleging the paparazzo used a telephoto lens to photograph the actress "from a great distance through invasive, intrusive and unlawful measures."
"I haven't sold those pictures anywhere," Brandt told ABC News Radio. "You know, they're suing me and all the publications who are publishing them, and I haven't sold them anywhere."
Brandt, 53, said the photos were taken at Aniston's Hollywood Hills home three weeks ago, not her secluded Malibu residence, and claims he was standing on a public street, about 300 yards away.
According to Aniston's suit, the photos "could have been taken only by means of trespass" and were shot in a location where the 36-year-old actress had a reasonable expectation of privacy.
"She has no fences around her backyard," Brandt said in the interview. "I did not trespass...She exposed herself to everybody in the neighborhood. I happened to have a camera, so I wouldn't have had a problem."
What Brandt does admit to is sending the topless photos along with other prints to "five or six" magazine editors.
"What I was trying to sell was the pictures of Vince [Vaughn] and her...Sending the topless pictures along with [the other photos] was maybe my mistake," Brandt said. "But I wasn't intending to sell those.
"Okay, maybe I shouldn't have sent the topless pictures, but, you know, I have them, and when you sit on something that big, I'm not going to make editorial judgment," he continued. "I'm a photographer; editorial judgment is done by the magazine."
Brandt also told ABC News Radio he deserved a little credit for not having shopped the pics to an adult magazine.
"They probably would've jumped on it in five seconds," he told the show. "I'm a photojournalist; I'm not a 'skin flick' person. But she happened to show up in my lens. What am I supposed to do?"
Aniston's suit is seeking monetary damages and a court order to stop Brandt, or anyone else, from making a profit off the photos.
Aside from the Los Angeles-based lawsuit, Brandt is facing legal hassles in England. According to TMZ.com, a London judge has issued an order prohibiting British publications from running "any photographs of the Claimant [Aniston] on the balcony of her home showing her topless or in the act of taking off or putting on her top."
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