Now secret threesome star tries to gag TWITTER users from naming him online and is even contacting people in countries where his gagging order doesn't apply 

  • Injunction star asked Twitter to email anyone who may have named him
  • Message tells user to 'voluntarily' delete post or face consequences
  • Note sent in the hours after Supreme Court said he should not be named
  • Email has gone to US and Spain where gagging order doesn't apply
  • MPs blast 'absurd' ruling allowing Millionaire to keep his £1m injunction 

The star who has gagged the press from revealing his threesome with another couple has now started targeting Twitter users.

The star - known only as PJS - has used online experts to track down any tweets naming him or his spouse and has sent out a threatening email.

The message was sent by Twitter on his behalf in the hours after his Supreme Court victory and warns the user must 'voluntarily' delete any message that could break the injunction.

Some have openly flouted the court order to name him - others claim they have only repeated facts of the case like his 'three-way' or that he was offered sex in a paddling pool filled with olive oil.

It came weeks after the millionaire forced Google in UK to remove any links to stories that name the star. 

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Warning: This email has been landing in inboxes all over the world warning people not to name the secret injunction star

Warning: This email has been landing in inboxes all over the world warning people not to name the secret injunction star

Gagged: The married star who has spent £1million on an injunction after having a threesome with another couple was not named today
A panel of judges led by Lord Mance backed him at the Supreme Court

Gagged: Yesterday: The married star who has spent £1million on an injunction after having a threesome with another couple will not be named after judges including Lord Mance, right yesterday, backed him

It says: 'The complainant requests that the following tweet, allegedly in violation of local law in the UK, be removed immediately from your account.

HOW INTERNET USERS HAVE DISCOVERED THE STAR'S IDENTITY 

Anyone wanting to find out the identity of the married celebrity can easily find a name by typing a few simple keywords into the Internet.

Even today’s judgement accepted that social media is awash with posts from people suggesting they know who the celebrity’s identity.

Lord Toulson, who disagreed with the injunction staying in place, said: ‘There have been numerous twitter hashtags of a fairly obvious kind leading to material identifying PJS in connection with the injunction.

‘It has been widely accessible on websites and twitter, and anyone who seriously wanted to know PJS’s identity will have had ways of finding it.'

Laying out the facts of the case, Lord Mance said: 'The online tool Google Trends shows a massive increase in the number of internet searches relating to the appellant and YMA by their true names.'

Today's judgement revealed that the celebrity's lawyers had been battling to get information from weblinks and pages removed, 'but concluded that this was a hopeless task: the same information continued to reappear in new places, and tweets and other forms of social networking also ensured its free circulation.'

The judgement also revealed that the star's solicitors were starting to have some success with social media platforms, and had managed to remove or disable links, or that these had become inactive. 

'Please confirm whether you will voluntarily comply with the request'.

Thousands are said to have received the warning, sent after the Supreme Court found in his favour yesterday.

In April the Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC said anyone who breached the order, not just newspapers, could be found in contempt and face prosecution.

Critics have called yesterday's ruling a 'cheaters' charter' and an attack on the free press - and his latest move has caused more fury.

One media source said: 'I know of others in UK and even in USA who have had this even though law does not apply there. I assume that he must be spending millions to track down every offending tweet'.

One Briton based in Spain told MailOnline he had been contacted overnight - even though anyone outside England and Wales is not bound by the injunction.

Users of Twitter and Facebook could face legal action for contempt of court if they use social media to name him. 

Twitter played a key role in the exposure of footballer Ryan Giggs's alleged affair with reality TV contestant Imogen Thomas, after an MP argued in the House of Commons that it was not possible to prosecute 75,000 of the site's users who had named him. 

Lawyers for wealthy star PJS could choose to pursue people who have been naming their client online over the past few months. 

Previous Attorney General Dominic Grieve was forced to set out the law when Ryan Giggs was named online.

In 2011 he said that Twitter users in England and Wales were not exempt from the requirement to observe privacy orders.

It would normally be for those who had taken out injunctions to initiate action to enforce them, said Mr Grieve.

But he told BBC Radio 4's Law In Action that he would take action himself if he thought it necessary to uphold the rule of law.

Focus: In the judgement the justices attacked this Mail front page - with Lord Mance saying: 'If that is the price of applying the law it is one which must be paid'

Focus: In the judgement the justices attacked this Mail front page - with Lord Mance saying: 'If that is the price of applying the law it is one which must be paid'

This is an edited transcript of the sensational – and somewhat lurid – story millions of Americans are reading, with large chunks redacted to comply with the  court ruling

This is an edited transcript of the sensational – and somewhat lurid – story millions of Americans are reading, with large chunks redacted to comply with the court ruling

Mr Grieve said: 'I will take action if I think that my intervention is necessary in the public interest, to maintain the rule of law, proportionate and will achieve an end of upholding the rule of law'.

MPs today slammed a 'perverse' Supreme Court decision not to name a 'randy' married star who organised a threesome with another couple.

Judges have decided that millions of people in England and Wales cannot know who he is - despite him being named across the world, including in Scotland, and extensively on social media.

WHAT WE CAN REPORT ABOUT THE STAR AND HIS 'THREESOME' 

2008:  The star, named as PJS in court papers and married to fellow celebrity YMA, meets future lover, known as AB.

2009: The celebrity and AB start having 'occasional sexual encounters'.

December 2011: The star sends a text asking AB if his partner, known as CD, is 'up for a three-way'. AB said that CD was and the three met for a threesome and had group sex.

January 2016: AB and CD approached the editor of the Sun on Sunday. They told the editor about their earlier sexual encounters with the claimant. The editor proposed to publish the story. 

January 14 2016: The newspaper's lawyers contacted the star's representatives and informed them of the position.

The claimant says that any publication of AB's and CD's story would be an invasion of privacy and tried to get an injunction to stop the story. 

The High Court refused the man's initial application to muzzle the Press because his infidelity contradicted his public portrayal of marital commitment. He appealed and was given anonymity.

March: The Court of Appeal overruled that decision after hearing from the household name that naming him would be devastating for him and could harm his children.

April 18: The Court of Appeal overturns the gagging order - but the star says he will appeal to the Supreme Court, meaning the injunction remains in place.

April 21: Supreme Court hears arguments and reserves judgment

May 19: Judges vote four to one to keep the injunction in place 

They ruled to protect the identity of 'PJS' - who had asked another couple if they were 'up for a three-way' before being offered sex in an olive oil-filled paddling pool.

Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke told MailOnline it was a new 'cheaters' charter' for the rich and famous and said: 'It is making a mockery of the legal system. This is just someone who got too randy and doesn't want people to know.'

Lawyers have now warned that the Supreme Court's ruling 'has given new life' to injunctions and stars have an improved chance of 'suppressing' stories about affairs, especially if they have children

Lord Mance admitted the landmark threesome ruling could be compared to King Canute trying to hold back the sea, but added: 'Unlike Canute, the courts can take steps to enforce its injunction'.

In upholding the gagging order he also took a swipe at critics, including this website, saying: 'As to MailOnline's portrayal of the law as an ass, if that is the price of applying the law it is one which must be paid.'

He was referring to a Daily Mail front page and a leader article asking: 'Whatever happened to the public's right to know?', which was also published online.

The decision has been branded 'absurd' by MPs who called it a 'cheaters' charter', with Tory Philip Davies telling MailOnline: 'This is a perverse decision by unelected and out of touch judges'.

The star - known only as PJS in court papers - could still face a trial against the publishers of The Sun if he wants to make his interim injunction permanent.

But legal sources have said he is unlikely to need one after today's landmark ruling. 

The married father of two whose spouse - referred to as YMA - is also a household name, had group sex with another couple after asking if they were 'up for a three-way'.

When the other couple went to the press he argued that his extramarital sex should remain private to protect his partner and to prevent his two young children finding out.

The Supreme Court today voted four to one to maintain the injunction - flying in the face of a previous Court of Appeal judgement calling for the gagging order to be scrapped.

Lord Toulson, the only judge to vote against it, said hiding his name would make the court look 'out of touch with reality'.

He said: 'It is inappropriate to ban people from saying that which is common knowledge. The story is not going to go away, injunction or no injunction'. 

Previously judges has said 'PJS' should be named because using children as a reason for secrecy 'cannot be a trump card'.

Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke described the ruling as a 'cheaters' charter'
Philip Davies said the injunction was 'absurd'

Anger: Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke described the ruling as a 'cheaters' charter' while fellow MP Philip Davies said the injunction was 'absurd'

Today Supreme Court justice Lady Hale said the wealthy star and spouse should be able to 'reveal and explain matters to their children in an age-appropriate way and at the age-appropriate time'. 

Lawyers have now warned that the Supreme Court's ruling 'has given new life' to injunctions and stars have an improved chance of 'suppressing' stories about affairs, especially if they have children.

Robin Shaw, a media lawyer from law firm Gordon Dadds, said: 'Five years ago the Ryan Giggs case was thought to mean the end of the celebrity injunction; his attempt to suppress his sexual adventures backfired and had the effect only of magnifying and prolonging the attention given to his activities.

'PJS' success will likely lead to a rapid increase in applications for privacy injunctions by rich celebrities and rich individuals'.

MPs have also queued up to blast the ruling and called on the Government to clear up the 'absurd' position the press had been left in.

Downing Street refused to offer a view on the judgment, insisting it was a ‘matter for the courts’. 

Asked about the ruling this evening, David Cameron told LBC Radio: 'We have an independent Judiciary and we should treasure that, and we have to accept these decisions, and I think that’s probably all I’m going to say about it.'

Tory Philip Davies told MailOnline: 'This is an extraordinary and perverse decision by unelected and out of touch judges.

'They are bringing the law into disrepute and giving a green light for the rich and powerful who can afford injunctions to use the media for any positive coverage but muzzle them to prevent any negative coverage.

'I hope the Government will review the law to re-establish our historic belief in the freedom of the press and end the absurd situation where the information is readily available in other countries and online but is not allowed to published in the mainstream media in the UK.' 

Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke told MailOnline: 'This looks like a cheater's charter'. 

The Elmet & Rothwell MP said: 'The ridiculous thing is that every single person knows who it is. I think it is up there with Comical Ali saying the US troops were not in Baghdad.

'There cannot be many people in the country who do not know who it is. It once again goes to prove that the richest profession in this country is the law. 

THE STARS WHO USED THEIR WEALTH TO HIDE THEIR AFFAIRS

A large number of household names have secured injunctions to hide their affairs - often using their families and children as a reason to keep their extramarital sex secret.

Here are the ones we still cannot name: 

The married celebrity

Known as PJS, or the 'olive oil bath threesome' celebrity, his case is about to decided by the Supreme Court – after lower courts initially refused him a privacy injunction because his cheating contradicted his public portrayal of married commitment. 

The star footballer

Household name who used an injunction to hush up claims he cheated on his partner with another celeb.

Acting star

Leading actor, married, a father. Cheated on his wife with Helen Wood, same prostitute who slept with Wayne Rooney. Helen Wood claims she had sexual relationship with the actor, whom she met through an acquaintance. 

The 'figure of trust'

A high profile celebrity woman described as a 'figure of trust' was granted an injunction in Manchester in May last year to prevent her lover from leaking details of her affair with a famous married man to the press.

The football manager

A married Premier League boss is currently threatening to gag The Sun over an alleged secret lover. He is the same manager who previously won a court order banning revelations about another affair.

The 'high profile figure'

Obtained an injunction to stop a woman revealing details of sexual encounters which took place in his home, because it would be 'very distressing for his family' to hear of them.

The top footballer

Married with children, the Premier League star took out an injunction to stop his philandering becoming known.

The 'world famous sportsman'

A multimillionaire sportsman - not a footballer - he is married and a father, but won an order to suppress any suggestions of an 'extra marital affair'.

The TV celebrity

The household name star and 'family' man was allowed to suppress 'intimate' photos of him with a woman with a permanent gagging order – previously reserved for killer children – and the woman was even told she had a 'duty of confidence' to the celebrity.

The entertainer

A well-known married man working in the entertainment industry who had an affair with a colleague.

The Premier League star

An international star with a long-standing partner, he hushed up claims of 'illicit sex' with a woman.

And the ones we can name..

Gary Flitcroft

2001 – won injunction

Flitcroft, millionaire father of a seven-month-old daughter, spent £200,000 on his court battle to stop a Sunday newspaper publishing details of his secret relationships with a lapdancer and nursery nurse.

It ended in 2002 when the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, turned down a final plea from the player's lawyers for his anonymity to be continued after learning that Flitcroft himself had negotiated with another newspaper to sell his version of events.

He had also told his wife, Karen, something about the affairs.

Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler  

2003 – failed injunction

Liverpool stars tried to block claims they had threesome with girl.

David Beckham 

2004 – failed injunction

Ordered lawyers to seek injunction against Sky broadcasting Rebecca Loos interview, but no injunction was granted. His former personal assistant claimed she had a four-month affair with him.

Beckham's lawyers said she was breaking a confidentiality agreement. 

Andrew Marr

18 January 2008 – won injunction

Andrew Marr used a gagging order to hush up an extra-marital affair- and was the first public figure voluntarily to admit trying to conceal his infidelity.

Mr Marr won a High Court injunction in January 2008 to suppress reports of a relationship with a fellow journalist five years earlier.

At the time, he believed he had fathered a child with the woman. He also made maintenance payments – until he discovered through a DNA test that he was not the girl's father.

John Terry 

25 Jan 2010 – injunction ordered - scrapped four days later

The Chelsea skipper is claimed to have cheated behind his wife's back. The England captain married Toni Poole in 2007.

The Mail on Sunday claimed French model Vanessa Perroncel, the former partner of fellow England defender Wayne Bridge, had an abortion within months of the affair starting.

The Chelsea star had initially used human rights laws to obtain a gagging order against the press, claiming his right to a 'private and family life'.

But the judge who threw out the order said he thought Terry was more concerned about the threat to his lucrative sponsorship deals.

Jeremy Clarkson 

6 Oct 2010 – injunction granted

Jeremy Clarkson lifted his own a gagging order preventing his ex-wife from claiming they had an affair after he remarried.

The Top Gear presenter won an injunction last year banning Alex Hall from revealing intimate details of their relationship, including allegations that they had sex after Clarkson wed his second wife Francie.

At the time the father of three could be described only as 'a married TV star' and his first wife's identity was kept secret as he became the latest figure to use the courts to protect his privacy.

Clarkson decided to unmask himself after concluding: 'Injunctions don't work – it's pointless

Ryan Giggs

14 April 2011 – injunction granted in High Court

Ryan Giggs paid the price for his secrecy battle as Parliament launched a dramatic fightback against the judiciary.

John Hemming's intervention in 2011, applauded by fellow MPs, ended the Manchester United star's fight to maintain his reputation as a faithful husband – despite an alleged affair with model Imogen Thomas.

Less than 24 hours earlier, 37-year-old Giggs had presented his wife Stacey and two young children to a 76,000-strong crowd at Old Trafford and a global television audience.

It later emerged he had an affair with his brother's wife - and his wife Stacey left him this year after allegations he flirted with a PR girl.

 

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