diana and dodi flee to paris. but the photographers follow. that drive from the airport was fast and furious. the car was swerving through the streets of paris. debby gribble is traveling with the couple and riding in the car behind them. there was so much tension. it felt like the whole situation was building up into something that was not going to be a good ending. later that night, diana and dodi leave his paris apartment for dinner at the restaurant benoit. when they tried to go to the restaurant, it was impossible. just hoards and hoards of photographers. so they change plans and go to the ritz hotel, which is owned by dodi s father. firefighter pierre sue is standing outside.
i could tell from her body language, the way she was holding herself, and her interaction with dodi, she wasn t happy. she knew something was wrong. they leave the hotel a little after midnight. the few photographers out back are immediately in pursuit. diana and dodi and the driver are all not wearing seat belts. henri paul is now speeding through the streets of paris, trying to lose the photographers behind them. the car is now hurdling into the alma tunnel, surrounded by the press on motorcycles and cars. and henri paul lost control of the car and it slams into a pillar. pierre sue is still with the decoy car in front of the ritz hotel.
pierre sue is a professional photographer. i had heard stories about my colleagues flying on private jets, hiring speedboats, helicopter. any media outlet would give you anything you wanted because they couldn t get enough. so what was the picture that everyone was looking for that summer? her kissing dodi. it was the picture of her kissing somebody who wasn t prince charles. diana allegedly tips off a photographer about the yacht s location. and days later, the kiss is splashed across the sunday mirror s front page. paul bennett was the executive editor of the paper. it sold off the shelves. the interest was just phenomenal. is it true this photographer made more than a million dollars? oh, absolutely. probably made a million dollars in the first week, i would have
breathing, shouting. dodi and the driver henri paul were dead. trevor rees-jones was somehow clinging to life, as was diana who was trapped in the back seat. did the woman in the back say anything? this woman didn t say anything. she was unconscious. her head was down like that and she had difficulty to breathe. when i looked at her, she was still a very beautiful woman. in the chaos, neither dr. mayay or mark butt realized who it was. somebody well known like a prince or something and his girlfriend or wife or something like that. by now photographer pierre sue had arrived. just as he was preparing to snap some photos, police showed up and ordered him out of the tunnel but he still got these dramatic shots from the outside looking in. i had a little telephoto lens and took pictures of anything i could see. the doctor was desperately trying to help diana in any way
pierre sue, eager to snap a shot and cash in. maybe one feature we d go over $100,000 at the time which would be like $300,000 today. with that kind of money on the line, sue and his fellow paparazzi were prepared to stay there all night. but later that evening, the couple changed plans. after finishing dinner at the ritz hotel, diana and dodi decided to go to his apartment to avoid the swarm of paparazzi that gattered in front of the hotel, they hatched a plan to secretly slip away by leaving from the back. dodi was eager to leave the paparazzi behind, especially after the media frenzy of the last few weeks according to his body guard trevor rees-jones. the attentions of the press in paris was more aggressive attitude than anything they d seen that summer. but that night, jones believed dodi s escape plan was half baked. he wished to leave from the rear of the hotel against our