Judge orders Utah woman to hand over intimate ‘boudoir’ pictures to ex-husband

AN EX-HUSBAND has been allowed to keep intimate pictures of his former wife as part of their divorce settlement.

A judge in Utah ordered the woman to hand over “boudoir albums” of photographs taken during a marriage that lasted 25 years.

The albums were the sole item in dispute when Lindsay and Christopher Marsh divided the family property while getting divorced in April 2021.

Ms Marsh wanted to get rid of the albums, but her ex-husband wanted to keep them as a memento of their time together.

He said he wanted to keep the loving captions which were written to accompany the pictures.

The judge decreed that the albums should be given to the photographer of the pictures, who would make a copy of them, censor the images and turn the edited collection over to Mr Marsh.

However, the photographer refused to co-operate, fearing it would destroy her “boudoir photography” business.

Judge Michael Edwards then ordered the albums be turned over to a graphic designer to obscure the images of Ms Marsh either naked or wearing lingerie.

Ms Marsh said she was incensed by the judge’s ruling, that a man she had never met should have access to photographs of her body and the intimate messages she sent to her former husband.

“That’s even more violating,” Lindsay Marsh told the Salt Lake Tribune, “because these are things that were sensual and loving that I wrote to my husband that I loved. [He is] my exhusband now.”

She told a local television station that the judge was forcing her to distribute pornography.

Mr Marsh told the paper the albums were not “inappropriate” adding that some of the images had been posted online or hung up in their home.

He disputed his former wife’s claim that the pictures were intimate.

“I cherish the loving memories we had for all those years as part of normal and appropriate exchanges between a husband and wife,” he said, “and I sought to preserve that in having the inscriptions.”

Ms Marsh said that after the duplicate, censored album is finalised, she will have a “burning party” to remove all traces of the original pictures. “It’s going to be amazing,” she said.

‘These are things that were sensual and loving that I wrote to my husband – my ex-husband now’