Filmmaker Errol Morris has won another round in his legal battle with Joyce McKinney, the woman who became famous in the 1970s during the "manacled Mormon" sex scandal.
The former American beauty queen was alleged to have abducted and raped Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson while he was touring England in 1977.
Their bizarre story unfolded in salacious detail in two newspapers, the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, as they fought to out-scoop each other.
And the saga was told by Morris in Tabloid, a documentary film first screened in London in October 2010, which I regarded at the time as a "a sad tale of old Fleet Street."
McKinney sued Morris and others responsible for the film, alleging - among other things - that she was tricked into giving an interview to Morris.
A Los Angeles judge dismissed many of McKinney's allegations, including her claim that the film had defamed her and violated her likeness and privacy.
The former American beauty queen was alleged to have abducted and raped Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson while he was touring England in 1977.
Their bizarre story unfolded in salacious detail in two newspapers, the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, as they fought to out-scoop each other.
And the saga was told by Morris in Tabloid, a documentary film first screened in London in October 2010, which I regarded at the time as a "a sad tale of old Fleet Street."
McKinney sued Morris and others responsible for the film, alleging - among other things - that she was tricked into giving an interview to Morris.
A Los Angeles judge dismissed many of McKinney's allegations, including her claim that the film had defamed her and violated her likeness and privacy.
- 10/17/2013
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
Three years before Errol Morris experienced a victory at a California appeals court on Tuesday, the famed documentary filmmaker tweeted, "I prefer the truth with some varnish on it. (Where did that nonsensical phrase – the unvarnished truth – come from?)” Morris could have hardly picked a better subject to illustrate the point than Joyce McKinney, who became famous in the 1970s after British tabloids presented her as the so-called "Manacled Mormon," a former American beauty queen who was alleged to have gone to England, abducting Kirk Anderson, a Mormon missionary, and then raping him. Years later, McKinney
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- 10/16/2013
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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