Legal threat by Twitter over star in threesome

TWITTER has issued legal warnings to users naming the ‘celebrity threesome’ couple after the Supreme Court upheld a gagging order keeping their names secret in the mainstream media.

Those who break the injunction by naming the married entertainment business figure and his partner could be jailed for contempt of court.

Details of the case – involving one of the partners engaging in a sexual threesome – have been published in the US, Canada and Scotland, and they have been widely identified on the internet.

But yesterday Twitter wrote to users whose tweets named the couple, saying it ‘has received legal correspondence regarding specific content posted on your Twitter account’.

It added: ‘The complainant requests that the following tweet, allegedly in violation of local law in the UK, be removed immediately from your account. Please confirm whether you will voluntarily comply with the request.’

In a landmark judgment on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the couple could not be named in connection with the threesome story because this would invade their privacy and that of their children.

But yesterday afternoon the names were instantly available through a quick internet search.