The Robert Kraft sex tapes are the equivalent when you see something that says NSFW. Your curiosity is peaked to the point that even though you know you shouldn’t look, you are going to look anyway.
No one really wants to see the Robert Kraft sex tapes, but if they are leaked a lot of people are going to watch.
ESPN is trying to make you lose your lunch according to Deadspin.
In their motion, lawyers for journalists at the Associated Press, ESPN, Gannett (owner of Treasure Coast Newspapers), GateHouse Media (owner of the Palm Beach Post), McClatchy (owner of the Miami Herald), the New York Times, Orlando Sentinel Communications, the Sun-Sentinel company, and TEGNA (owners of WTSP-TV and WTLV/WJXX) explain the many reasons why the massage parlor videos are public records. I’ll go into detail later in this post, but the gist is this—the law in Florida designates these videos (as well as many other police records) as public record and has done so for many years, long before Kraft’s AFC Championship pregame visit for what, according to police documents, sounds like oral sex, followed by a hand job at the same massage parlor the next day.
Kraft can’t afford to be embarrassed. Or rather, he can, he does have billions of dollars and still will, but he’d really rather not be, and isn’t the whole of having billions of dollars that you can buy your way out of being embarrassed? So Kraft, as well as 14 other men also caught in the investigation, filed a request for a protective order, asking a judge to keep all the evidence in the case—including any videos—from being released. Their arguments were basically that the videos are exempt because they are police intelligence and the court cases are ongoing. In the motion today, the collection of media organizations cite a lot of Florida case law, the state’s own constitution, and the fuller text of the statutes themselves to argue why that’s not how the sunshine law works.
And while lawyers can’t be so glib, I’d like to suggest that a lot of what follows from the legal arguments can be interpreted as: Welcome to Florida, Robert Kraft. Let us explain to you how we do business down here.
The tapes are going to come out at some point, just a matter of when, not if.
Flip the pages for court docs on what Kraft was doing at the spa and news video on when the tapes could be released.