Yahoo Movies Man can keep his ex-wife's nude photos after divorce, US judge rules
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 25-year marriage.
The albums were the sole item in dispute when Lindsay and Christopher Marsh divided the family property when they 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 accompanied the pictures.
The judge decreed that the albums should be given to the photographer who took the pictures, who would edit them before turning them 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 edit the pictures by obscuring 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 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. You’re my ex-husband now.”
She told a local television station that the judge was forcing her to distribute pornography.
Mr Marsh told the paper the books 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 sought to preserve that in having the inscriptions.”
Ms Marsh said she will eventually have a “burning party” to remove all remaining traces of the original pictures.
“It’s going to be amazing.”
