A news and photography agency has agreed not to take pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their son, Archie, the High Court in London was told at a hearing Friday.
The agreement is part of a settlement between the former Meghan Markle and U.K. company Splash News and Picture Agency of a case she filed in March over photos of her and her son taken in a Canadian park in January. The agency has since gone into administration, a type of bankruptcy protection.
A spokesman for Schillings, legal representatives for Prince Harry and his wife, called the settlement "a clear signal that unlawful, invasive and intrusive paparazzi behavior will not be tolerated and that the couple takes these matters seriously — just as any family would."
A similar claim against Splash US, a sister company to Splash UK, is continuing in the British court system, the spokesman added.
Jagger's girlfriend gets Florida pad
Mick Jagger, Florida Man ? The Rolling Stones frontman recently bought a mansion south of Tampa as a Christmas present for his girlfriend, ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that the four-bedroom house sits on roughly a third of an acre in the planned community of Lakewood Ranch. Perched next to a lake and close to its neighbors, it includes nearly 8,400 square feet under the roof. The real estate firm that sold the house said Jagger, 77, paid $1.9 million for it in late October, with the title put in Hamrick's name. Tina Ciaccio, the listing agent, said the couple never visited the home before buying it, but met with her online.
Farewell: Jeremy Bulloch, the English actor who first donned a helmet, cape and jet pack to play Boba Fett in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, died Thursday after years of living with Parkinson's disease, his agents said in a statement. He was 75. As the Mandalorian bounty hunter Boba Fett, Bulloch made off with a frozen-in-carbonite Han Solo in 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back," then zoomed around the desert of Tatooine in a jet pack in 1983's "Return of the Jedi." "Today we lost the best bounty hunter in the galaxy," Billy Dee Williams, whose Lando Calrissian appeared in key scenes with Bulloch in the films, said on Twitter.
Charges dropped: Prosecutors have dropped rape and kidnapping charges against New Orleans rapper Mystikal, who was released from jail on a $3 million bond almost two years ago. The rapper had been indicted in 2017 but on Thursday, a second Caddo Parish grand jury returned a no true bill clearing Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Lawrence Tyler, the parish district attorney's office said. Tyler, 50, surrendered to authorities in August 2017 when he learned there was a warrant out for his arrest.
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