British socialite Jemima Khan woke to find her self in the midst of a Twitter fueled media storm stemming from the ‘super injunction’ fiasco ongoing in the UK. It is alleged that several top celebrities in the UK have set up a stop gap measure to stifle the media from printing unsavory photos and details of their illicit affairs. In a time when image is everything and the court of public opinion reigns supreme, celebrities have turned to the legal system to put in place ‘super injunctions’ barring newspapers from printing any ill gotten photos, videos etc. detailing their sexual dalliances.
In the court system you are considered innocent until proven guilty. Nonetheless being accused of a wrongdoing still leads to extended media scrutiny. Over the years we’ve seen many celebrities have their privacy invaded after a domestic dispute or rumor of an affair. Usually the celebrity in question has no recourse, they simply lay low until the paparazzi move on to the next big thing.
Jemima Khan
In the case of Jemima Khan the multimillionaire heiress and close friend of the late princess Diana, she made no attempt to block the media from writing about her life. Yet someone chose to create an anonymous Twitter account naming all the celebrities that had super injunctions with her name on the list. The Twitter user alleges that she is using the gag order to block “intimate photos” of herself and Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson. To say she is angered by this is a great understatement. Jemima has since turned to Twitter to proclaim her innocence and fight off the onslaught of hate tweets.
Super Injunctions Fiasco Leads To Jemima Khan Hate Tweets
Here is where the story goes further south, Jemima is caught in a catch 22. By virtue of not having an injunction the UK media is free to write about her and so they have. She’s become the unwilling face of this fiasco because the papers are legally bound to not write about the actual culprits.
