Bayern Munich Midfielder, Frank Ribery To Sue CNN For $1.5m (See Why)

France and Bayern Munich midfielder Franck Ribery
is seeking $1.5 million in damages from US cable
news channel CNN for using his image in a story
about the death of a woman in a cryotherapy
chamber, his lawyer said on Friday.
CNN ran a story last month,exactly on October 28
about the death of Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, a 24-
year-old American woman who was found dead in
a cryotherapy tank in a Nevada spa.
CNN used a photo showing Franck Ribery’s head
while the footballer used a similar machine, which
many high-level sportsmen often do. An error on
the cable network’s part, as they immediately took
down the picture and post but that was not enough
to stop people from noticing.
“It results from this publication that the
photograph of Mr. Franck Ribery has been a
$$ociated to a woman’s death related to the
cryotherapy treatment,” Ribery’s lawyer Carlo
Alberto Brusa said.
“Mr. Franck Ribery, a world-famous professional
soccer player and former member of the France
national soccer team, has never given his
permission and consent to the use of this
photograph — and therefore of his image — related
to the aforesaid publication.”
Brusa said the use of the photo was an “illegal a
$$ociation, which constitutes an infringement of
the personality rights and the French image right,
is a wrongdoing for which you are responsible and
which obliges you to repair all the damages
suffered by Mr. Franck Ribery and his family
following this morbid publication and the public
reactions provoked”.