‘AnonymousThroat grab photographer’ is not an ‘Opportunistic Paparazzi’ – but the former
CEO ofbankrupt Big Pictures, famed for their ‘set-up’ celebrity paparazzi shots
with the likes of Jordan & Peter Andre, Abi Titmuss
It has widely been speculated that Nigella Lawson was involved in a
3-way set up of Charles Saatchi with the former CEO of bankrupt celebrity
picture agency Big Pictures working from a tip off from the redundant former
Assistant Editor (Features) of the Mail on Sunday, Sian James, who allegedly
happened to be sitting in Scotts restaurant in Mayfair on the day of the set up
next to Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi on the 9th June 2013.
‘Tactile’ Mr. Saatchi went with Nigella Lawson to an outside table at
Scotts for a ‘quick cigarette’on two occasions during their meal for a maximum
of 10 minutes each time where Nigella Lawson pretended to be‘worse than drunk’
and ‘out of it’ according to sources at the restaurant witnessing what
happened.
There was no ‘27 minutes of attack’ as alleged by anonymous photographer
‘Jean Paul’ as Scotts restaurant will confirm, as the pair only sat at the
outside table for a cigarette twice and for a maximum of 10 minutes each time.
The supposed ‘paparazzi photographer’ – who hides behind the fake
identity of ‘Jean Paul’- foolishly wrote a self-by-lined article the
week after the pictures ran in the Sunday People (27th June 2013) falsely
claiming he witnessed a 27 minute ‘attack’ by Mr. Saatchi and noticed it after
Nigella Lawson’s head ‘jolted back’ before he started snapping the alleged
‘attack’.
Waiters, management and customers at Scotts would not allow a high
profile customer to be throttled in the outside dining area of Scotts onMount
Street, Mayfair whilst continuing to serve drinks. Scotts are not complicit in
the fake abuse scandal. Nor would Scotts allow someone like Nigella Lawson to
suffer from sustained abuse whilst continuing to serve other customers. Because
there simply was no abuse. This is fake.
The timeline, context and‘Jean-Paul’s’ version of events is a total
invention for the purposes of selling the fake pictures for a large fee
internationally.
Nigella Lawson feigned distressed for Jean-Paul’s camera whilst presenting
Mr. Saatchi with behaviour that was disturbing and distressful in the extreme.
Delicately holding her right hand, Mr. Saatchi with his left hand, and in
typical ‘tactile’ style held her head to ‘bring her back’ ‘jig her back’ as he
was very concerned about her deteriorating, highly concerning, erratic
behaviour.
The so-called sustained ‘27 minute attack’ according to anonymous
paparazzi ‘Jean-Paul’ is an invention and a total lie.
‘Jean Paul’ would have been better off remaining quiet rather than
embellishing and adding lunacy to his version of events in order to command a
bigger fee. The Sunday People paid £14,000 for the exclusive picture set which
became a front cover story on 16th June 2013 after the pictures were
turned down by the likes of The Sun newspaper because Jean Paul was looking for
so much money for them.
The Mirror Group (owners of the Sunday People)MUST APOLOGISE for running the pictures and then damage
caused to Charles Saatchi and then following up the story in the Mirror with a
story about Nigella Lawson comforted by James Bond (from the nasty Bond
Villain) on 27th July 2013 titled ‘Nigella Lawson has been comforted by Pierce Brosnan over her
marriage split hell’.
Married Pierce Brosnan will probably be horrified his ‘friendship’ with
Nigella Lawson being abused by Nigella Lawson in an effort to paint herself as
a victim of wife abuse from a nasty ‘Bond villain’ with ‘James Bond’ riding in to comfort her and then ride off with her into
the sunset.
If Nigella Lawson was dating a footballer she could probably get away
with this made up lunacy, but she’s tried to media manipulate her way out of a
10 year marriage to one of the key figures in the media world as a way to get
out of a marriage that has been on the rocks for over a year according to
sources.
Nigella, not wanting to be single for even a minute, probably wanted to
create the perfect bridge from her 10 year marriage to Charles Saatchi and
straight into the arms of ‘James Bond’. She behaved this way when she
orchestrated and began an affair with Charles Saatchi 6 months before John
Diamond died. No gaps in any relationship.
After the invented ‘throttling’ incident on 9th June 2013,
but well before the pictures ran in the Sunday People on the 16th
June 2013, Nigella Lawson happily went back to Scotts for a meal with Mr.
Saatchi on Saturday 15th June 2013 and was seen happily sitting at the same table
dining with Mr. Saatchi.
She wouldn’t do this if she was ‘in fear of her life’ after an alleged
incident on the 9th June 2013.
She would have gone into hiding before the pictures ran and after the
so-called incident.
On Sunday 16th June 2013, the Sunday People ran manipulated pictures
– taken 8 days before.
If the motivation for Nigella Lawson to ‘go into hiding’ was indeed fear
of attack from a ‘wife abuser’, why was she dining happily with him at Scotts a
week after the so-called abuse. Because there was NO abuse. This is a total and
utter lie.
Only after the pictures ran in the Sunday People Nigella Lawson ‘went to
ground’ according to sources and will still not confirm to the media that there
was absolutely nothing to it and it was a set-up.
Nigella Lawson was apparently advised by her agent/publicist Mark
Thompson to ‘say nothing’ as her silence and lack of clarification would assist
paint the picture of Charles Saatchi as a wife abuser and give her
international sympathy and fame.
Ms. Lawson hoped that she would be an interview opportunity on Oprah on
the proviso that Oprah would not ask her specific questions about the so-called
abuse.
But there is no Oprah interview.
As well as a convenient exit from the marriage and quickie divorce from
Mr. Saatchi, Ms. Lawson was well aware her show The Taste in the States did not
rate very well and need a PR boost and she was looking to re-launch herself on
Channel 4 in the U.K. since a break from 2006.
This whole exercise was totally on-brand from Nigella Lawson who has
always wanted to paint herself as an abused Victim rather than ‘Monstrous
Feminine’.
Nigella Lawson has cut off all communication with Saatchi accept via her
lawyer.
Nigella Lawson has left her step daughter Phoebe distraught, who Lawson
has been a mother to from the age of 7 according to sources. Nigella Lawson has
not tried to communicate with Phoebe in over last 7 weeks and has cut off all
communication.
TIMELINE:
Sunday 9th June 2013
Charles Saatchi was aware of ‘play’ for the paparazzi cameras at Scotts
Restaurant in Mayfair which he has been going to with for Nigella Lawson for
many years.
This is the highly photographed spot outside Scotts restaurant where
people have a smoke – it is probably the most photographed spot by paparazzi
photographers in the world – as it’s in full view of photographers.
The food they were eating was on an inside table not on the table of the
alleged ‘throat grab’.
It’s always been just playful fun and games. Teeth cleaning. Nose cleaning.
Hand over the mouth etc. It has always “looked” extreme, but it’s just simple
gentle play.
They have ALWAYS been very tactile with each other.
Nigella Lawson was well aware of “Jean-Paul’s” camera looking straight into
the lens on several occasions. Unfortunately Jean-Paul has uploaded all the
images, rather than editing out all the ones where Nigella is directly looking
at him.
Nigella Lawson’s behaviour was erratic and ‘worse than drunk’ according
to sources. She almost seemed to be passing out..
Delicately holding Ms. Lawson’s hand, Mr. Saatchi puts his hand to her
throat to ‘jig her back’ to ‘bring her back’. All the time he is comforting her
by delicately holding her hand.
This went on for a matter of only a few minutes.
‘Tactile’ Mr. Saatchi removed a substance from Nigella Lawson’s
nostrils. He was not wrenching, tweaking her nose. The ‘pained’ look was faked
by Nigella Lawson for Jean-Paul’s camera.
Saturday 15th June 2013
On Saturday 15th June 2013, Nigella Lawson happily returns to
Scotts Restaurant with Charles Saatchi and has a meal. There were not issues.
She was relaxed and having a good time.
Sunday 16th June 2013
The Sunday People run pictures taken 8 days earlier on Sunday 9th
June 2013 backed by a fake ‘witness account’ from Sian James, former Assistant
Editor (Features) of the Mail on Sunday who has stated she was in the
restautant with Nigella Lawson, witnessed the abuse and then ‘got on the phone’
to Jean-Paul who apparently drove across town and had time to position his car
and witness ’27 minutes of sustained abuse’. This also implies that the abuse
was going on outside the restaurant for much longer than just the 27 sustained
minutes that ‘Jean-Paul’ witnessed. For Sian James to see something, call him
and then him drive across town, position his camera and then snap away for 27
minutes without intervening in the so-called abuse suggests Scotts staff
happily continued serving whilst Nigella Lawson was abused well over an hour.
Total and utter fantasy and lies.
Sunday 16thJune 2013
Nigella Lawson goes into hiding and refuses to explain the truth behind
the pictures to journalists. She only communicates to Saatchi through her
lawyer.
23rd June 2013
“Jean-Paul” the photographer gloats in his self written article in the
Sunday People (the week after the original pictures run) by stating that he witnessed a sustained attack for over
27 minutes.
Lawson attack: Photographer
Jean-Paul says he witnessed 27 MINUTES of madness
What I saw outside that
restaurant isn’t something you can brush under the carpet, Jean-Paul writes for
the Sunday People.
Charles Saatchi
dismissed it as “nothing more than a playful tiff”. Deputy Prime Minister Nick
Clegg suggested it could have been a “fleeting thing”.
But what I witnessed was 27 minutes of madness, writes
photographer Jean-Paul in the Sunday People after he took those shocking
pictures.
That’s how long the abuse lasted from start to finish so it
was most definitely not a fleeting moment.
Nick Ferrari said on his
LBC radio show the incident happened across just three pictures, which is utter
nonsense.
What I saw outside that
restaurant isn’t something you can brush under the carpet.
Nick Clegg is a moron if
he thinks it was a fleeting moment. Nigella Lawson was abused, properly abused.
It happened in public so
it is so worrying to think about what might happen at home where nobody else
can see.
People have asked why I didn’t intervene, why I didn’t go
over. The answer is simple – I would have been arrested. I’m paparazzi so everyone hates you to begin
with.
We are all lumped into
the same category but I wasn’t hounding her. The best thing I could do was carry on taking the pictures because
now everyone can see that Charles Saatchi is an abuser. There is no
doubt about that in those pictures.
It was shocking. The first time her head jolted backwards
really got me. I didn’t take pictures initially.
I arrived and they were
having a meal, I didn’t want to take pictures of people eating because I don’t
think it’s good to do.
I thought OK, I will
wait for them to finish, wait in my car then get a full-length pic of Nigella
as she left.
I was sitting reading
the paper but keeping an eye out to make sure I didn’t miss them leaving.
Then suddenly I saw
Nigella’s head jolt backwards. I thought this is odd.
I put the camera up to
my face to look through the lens and I saw his left hand on her throat so I
started taking pictures.
From that moment on I
kept taking pictures and there were 27 minutes of it, 27 minutes of abuse.
When I saw the very
first pictures, I thought he can’t be doing this. I was in complete disbelief.
I said to myself this
can’t be happening, it can’t be real. I thought he was just demonstrating
something.
Then he put his hand down but after 30 seconds he put it up
again and I knew it was painful. It must have really hurt.
He is a big man, it would have
hurt Nigella immensely. She has grown up with abuse, a really sad scenario.
It was like she accepted what he was doing. I believe she
really loves him and that there is no animosity there.
She can’t go back to him
now without losing the respect of so many people.
It has been a crazy week, people are still buying the
pictures.Hearing that they have been seen over the world is so special. I don’t think this will ever go away.
You’re never going to
see this in public again.
I am proud, because as a
photographer you want to be in the paper but you also want to take pictures
that mean something, have some merit. And this will be talked about for year
23rd July 2012
PR Guru Richard Hillgrove publishes a blog stating the pictures are
fake.
24th July 2012
Nigella Lawson threatens to sue Richard Hillgrove via Schillings, her lawyers
unless he apologises, removes the post etc. Schillings also threaten every
media outlet that publishes Richard Hillgrove’s contention that the pictures
are fake.
Nigella Lawson instructs Schillings to threaten Richard Hillgrove with
legal action.
This is the first communication anyone has had from Nigella Lawson since
the pictures ran (as opposed to when the pictures were taken, afterwards she
was fine) – who hadn’t even contacted her step daughter Phoebe.
30th July 2013
Richard Hillgrove callsKevin Lansdowne, restaurant manager of Scott’s,
Mayfair (Tel. 020 7495 7309) about incident and version of events. He said
Scotts will not make any comment on the version of events.