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...superstar Michael Jackson today brought a $100 million lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, the producers of "Hard Copy," calling a January 9 report aired by the TV tabloid show "slanderous, vicious and wholly fabricated." Diane Dimond, the "Hard Copy" reporter for the segment, claimed that a videotape had surfaced, allegedly showing Jackson sexually involved with a young boy, and that prosecutors had reopened their child molestation case against the singer. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office has denied that it is investigating such a tape. Also named in the suit: "Hard Copy" producer Stephen Doran, two hosts...
...Star Michael Jackson has taken the unusually tough step of instructing his attorneys to sue any media organization reporting that someone has a videotape showing him in a sexually-compromising scene with a young boy. Several London newspapers, as well as the television tabloid "Hard Copy" reported earlier this week that one of Jackson's own security cameras captured Jackson and a 13-year-old boy in a sexual encounter on a 27-minute black-and-white video tape. Jackson has branded the stories "vicious lies and rumors." Los Angeles prosecutors say they know of no such tape...
When the bodies of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were discovered on June 13, National Enquirer editors must have thought they had died and gone to tabloid heaven. Enquirer staff members arrived on the scene outside Nicole's Brentwood home at about the same time as the Los Angeles coroner, and since then as many as 20 reporters have been running down everyone even tangentially connected to the case, dogging distant relatives for photos and dangling cash in front of household employees and store clerks. In fact the Enquirer has pursued the O.J. story so aggressively that...
...Simpson case sold their accounts to the Enquirer before testifying in court, California Governor Pete Wilson signed three new laws that went into effect Jan. 1, penalizing witnesses or jurors who sell information about a pending case. And last month, after a bit of the Enquirer's tabloid color seeped into the gray pages of the New York Times, the furor was sufficient to occupy O.J. watchers until the DNA hearings begin this week...
Earthquakes. political upheaval. Incomprehensible acts of violence, sometimes engulfing whole countries. Tabloid spectacle... 1994 proved to be a memorable, if occasionally frightening, year for photojournalists. Here, on the following pages, are the year's most compelling news photos -- and the often disturbing stories behind them...