HIPAA has been harder to enforce in the case of celebrities (especially at some California hospitals). The tabloids blatantly pay for information, and the urge to snoop is often too great.
No excuse though. Celebrities deserve the same right to privacy as the rest of us, and any medical personnel who gets caught should justifiably be fired.
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