Prince Albert’s privacy royally screwed
Prince Albert's secrets spilled by former intelligence chief (AFP/Getty Images)
If you hire a private investigator to uncover all the dirt that can be found on you, it would be wise to pay your bills to him. So discovered Prince Albert II of Monaco this week.
Prince Albert (a.k.a. Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi) hired California resident Robert Eringer to be his intelligence advisor in 2002. The prince paid the former FBI operative hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate individuals of concern, scandals, and any thing that threatened the prince’s image. Then in 2008, the prince fired Eringer.
Eringer feels he’s still owed money by the prince, so he has sued him in California. In his breach of contract suit, he reveals all of the dirt and secrets that he spent years collecting.
The complaint discusses illegitimate children, a sex tape, an allegation of rape, contacts with fellow world leaders, and concerns about Freemasons. It reads like a political thriller novel. The media are having a field day:
Lawsuit claims that woman performed ’sex act’ on Prince Albert of Monaco in lurid video. – The Global Mail
Prince Albert’s secrets under threat from rebel spy . – The Times Online
Prince Albert, the spy and the sex tape. – The Examiner
Dude. Worst former intelligence chief ever.
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Does the lawsuit explain why Eringer was fired in the first place? And now royals have sex tapes too? It will never end…
It doesn’t really explain. It sounds like the prince just stopped meeting with him and paying his bills.
In response to another comment. See in context »this is potentially a problem of Berlusconi proportions.