DEBATE Emma Watson - topless pic LQ - 8/4/20 **Discussion Thread, click at your own risk**

This, 100%. Her complete silence (that I've seen) is the biggest indicator that she called her lawyers who told her she was entirely out of luck. Hell, she may even know exactly who took the picture. But whatever the case, then her agent suggested silence as next breast....best option.

 

These two pictures literally end the discussion and prove everything. Good investigative work.

 

If it was staff, I'm sure they could be fired, but would French law let them be sued. If it was an opportunistic guest her security missed in a sweep, I'm sure they're persona non grata at the resort, but could they be sued? Any French torts experts here?

 

That's why there is only 1 pic (so far). No one would like to be caught taking pictures of a topless woman, especially in a fancy resort in Europe, being topless is completely normal.
But that topless woman was Emma Watson ... So someone put his reputation (and his job?) at risk and did it.

I think she will ignore it, it's done, a sue just would bring more attention.
The hotel on the other hand... this is bad reputation. I don't know if they can sue, guests can take pics... but I guess they will try to know if it was taken by a guest or an employee.

 

Thanks hope these are real

 

So this explains why the paparazzi have NO topless photos as she never went topless at what they call the beach area. She felt the pool area was a safe zone relatively from the paparazzi. They could of course still get a picture from some remote location possibly if they had a good enough lens.

What still gets me is the angle is quite straight on but I guess someone walking past like a waiter or guest could of taken a sneaky shot. I feel disappointed as I think thats it in terms of photos and I bet she was topless by the pool a lot of the time. On the positive side we have a topless photo of Emma Watson regardless of quality.

 

Update: I think we were all wrong as we missed an important detail. The yellow flowers are all placed on the outside wall. So the photo would have to been taken outside the pool area. This would explain the flowers being more in focus as they will be about 12 feet closer to the camera. The red lines (see photo) as indicated show some suggested angles used by the paparazzi. A guest in the pool area would be too brazen looking at angle and Emma seaming completely unconcerned. So for me now there is hope there could be a crap load more photos. However, they may of been sold back to Emma but I doubt this as the real money would be if none were sold in the first place. The mystery is still why only one photo?

 

It actually happened in Italy, not France. I'm not so sure about the legal implications, but it should be as follows.
The place where the photo was taken is open to the public (which means a private place where everyone can theoretically access, with the owner that establishes the access rules). In a place open to the public is allowed to take pictures of a celebrity; the photographer is allowed to sell them, and the images can be published without the celeb's consent.
So, the place is not really a problem. There might be a problem if the photo is considered detrimental to the person's honor or reputation, in that case it would be illegal. But there are so many celeb topless taken every summer and published in magazines... This practice would have been forbidden years ago, if it was found illicit.
For these reasons, I guess she wouldn't gain much by suing the resort, besides unwanted attention.

 

Another photo showing possible angles cutting through the top of the flowers to the sun bed.

 

How do you explain the yellow flowers in the bottom of the photo? They are only positioned around the edge of the pool area and for a pic to be taken, the camera has to be outside that area. Her beach chair is pretty much at right angles to the camera. If you look out from where she probably was sitting, there's only a hill side with houses (according to GoogleMaps) over 700 feet away. I still say it was a drone. Her expression to me is one of seeing the drone and goofing around by waving hello. The poor quality is due to the camera, vibration, or both.

 

If you look at the linked photos I marked up possible locations and angles. As for the drone I guess it’s possible but I doubt her reaction would be to not cover up but instead remain topless and take a photo of it. She would know it would be there to take a photo of her.

 

No, I had already mentioned the place of the flowers, that's why I thought of an external place. But now I think a paparazzi couldn't be there because those must be private propities? And for anyone else, it seems too far...

The problem is that we can't see the whole resort and the images can be misleading.
But I found another one: This could be the view from one of those buildings...

but then, thanks to this photo, I realized that there are balconies next to the pool

The flowers are in the way and the angle seems to be the right one.


Ok, this is getting lame

 

It’s certainly a possibility which would put it back into the realm of it being a guest or staff member taking the photo. Although I still hope it was from the other building photo. I think this is a bigger mystery than the UFO phenomenon.

 

You people got it all wrong. She wasn't sunbathing in the pool area but rather she was sunbathing in the beach area. The Hotel II San Pietro Positano has sunbeds on the beach area. The paparazzi was taking photos on the hill overlooking the beach area. The topless photo was probably taken lower down that hill or in a boat.

BTW, Backgrid UK and US has 74 photos of Emma Watson during that date and yet if you look around web there were only 72 photos published which means there are 2 photos left. The topless photo is 1 of the 2 missing.

 

Potted plants. Pots can be moved. Plants can be replanted. We can see in various photos that there are plants of all kinds in every which direction at different times. Many with yellow flowers as well as others including apparently the same pots atop the outside wall but no flowers. We don't know how far EW is from the camera or how far along the sight line the flowers are. I agree with yucon that wild speculation about exactly how the caper might've been carried out is beside the point once we figure out that it was POSSIBLE to do. Is this EW? Is she really topless? Or was the pic doctored? I don't think we can necessarily answer these basic questions definitively. But then, I don't think those of us still in the hunt are even in doubt about that anymore. So what's the point? We don't know for sure. We aren't going to. There are people who will believe what they want to or don't want to no matter what evidence. Let's just split us all up into 2 groups & keep out of each other's way. FWIW, please include me in the "oh yes it is" group. I'd never be one of those loser "no you're wrong" clowns.

 

Also, I'll come slightly in yucon's direction in that the privacy of famous people has gotten whittled down to practically none & those of us who're glad to receive treasure from the sky aren't helping to stop the harm. I'm not quite to accepting any blame, but I'll admit this is maybe a gray area.

 

You should read the whole thread before claim that we are wrong We are just guessing in many ways, yes... but pics don't lie, check the paparazzi pics: there are no pots with flowers at the beach area. Those flowers are the key to know that she was by the pool. Besides, if that had happened at the beach, there would be tons of pics.

Sure, pots can be moved, but these ones are huge stone pots and they must be too heavy. Why? Because it's a cliff, it would be very dangerous if any of those pots were moved and fell.

 

Did I say those particular pots? I meant all the other pots all the heck over the place. And don't single out 1 variable when my specific point was that there are many variables, almost all of them totally out of our control. Like I said, in cases where the pots haven't been moved, we still see plants without flowers. Plants can be put in, taken out. Moved around, replaced. Photos can be taken all year round. Heck, it's hard to tell what time of day it is in most of the pics. Can we say none of these things matter? If any do, which? I don't say no one can figure it out. I just seriously doubt we will be the detectives who who make any further giant strides toward a conclusive end to the ongoing investigation. I'm not closing the ticket, but our team leader should consider it. Let's gather our clues, present them to our Grand Jury, and let them tell us if a crime has been committed. If not, thank them for their service & send them home.

 

The surface of the floor of the swimming pool area is clearly different to surface of the floor of the beach club area which they are clearly got photograph on swimming, showering and sunbathing. Try checking hotel's website and booking.com for the photos of the beach club area and the hill the paparazzi was on.