Overview
- The Audiencia Provincial de Madrid affirmed a Pozuelo de Alarcón judgment ordering Telemadrid to pay €130,000 for violating privacy and image rights.
- The compensation is set at €80,000 for Georgina Rodríguez and €50,000 to be shared between her sisters.
- Judges found that 2018 Aqui hay madroño segments delved into strictly private family matters with frivolity and without verification.
- The court criticized the use of neighbors presented as relatives or friends, calling the sourcing below the minimum standards of journalistic rigor.
- Magistrates held that Rodríguez’s later celebrity status cannot retroactively justify the broadcasts, and Telemadrid has appealed to the Supreme Court.