As a journalist, local news anchor Diann Burns "regularly delves into the private lives of others. But she wants her own private life off limits," reports the
Chicago Sun-Times. Burns, a
fixture on the Chicago CBS affiliate, is trying to keep the media from seeing the details of a lawsuit she filed against the company that she contends built her $3 million home shoddily because she is
black. In court documents, Burns and her agent/husband want a Cook County judge to seal much of the case. The filing, set for a hearing later this week, asks that everyone involved in the case sign a
"secrecy agreement," which would last as long as five years. It says the home is the couple's "castle and refuge from the daily pressures of life," and that they "will suffer unreasonable annoyance
and embarrassment if pictorial or verbal descriptions of the interior of their home" are made public. Burns worries that such exposure will attract curiosity seekers, and deprive her of the privacy
and peace to "which every human being is entitled."
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