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No, there should not be a law about this. What possible reason would there be for being prevented by law to talk about your life? When is it OK to talk, and when is it not?

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Because it is defamation. Anyone can talk about their lives, but when you start talking about someone else without their permission to make money..I am actually pretty sure there is a already a law against it.

It’s only defamation if the statement is false and you can prove some sort of harm was done.

Really? You can’t write about anyone else? How do newspapers exist? Biographies?

This is a marriage. They are not celebrities. He is profiting from the dissolution of a marriage with a one sided narrative.

Him monetizing his divorce like that is disturbing if the wife didn't agree to this.

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