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French celebrity magazine Voici was ordered Tuesday to pay symbolic damages to President Francois Hollande's alleged girlfriend, actress Julie Gayet, for publishing pictures of the couple inside the presidential palace.

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Gayet, 44, pressed charges against the magazine after the grainy images of the couple on a terrace inside Hollande's official residence were published in under the tagline: "Since the start of their affair we have never seen them together. A lawyer for the magazine told AFP they planned to appeal. If the sentence is upheld Voici will have to publish a legal statement on its front page.

Gayet's lawyer, Jean Ennochi, said there was no "legitimate interest" in publishing the pictures. It is a crime," he said. In October, Voici and another celebrity magazine VSD were ordered to pay 1, euros to Gayet and members of her family after picturing them with Hollande at one of his official country residences. Hollande was revealed to be cheating on his long-term partner Valerie Trierweiler with Gayet when explosive paparazzi pictures of him visiting her Paris apartment were published in January Trierweiler, a journalist, published a bestselling tell-all memoir of their relationship and break-up, portraying the president as a cold-hearted egotist and champagne socialist, who was contemptuous of the "toothless" poor.

Trierweiler says in the book she tried to commit suicide in the presidential bedroom with an overdose of sleeping pills after news of the affair broke. Hollande has remained mum on his relationship with Gayet ever since, refusing to confirm or deny their relationship. The president has four children with another former partner, the current ecology minister Segolene Royal.

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