It’s the most widespread celebrity photo hacking scandal to date -and now its time to pay.
A large group of the women whose personal email accounts have been compromised – with the stolen intimate shots of stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna and Kim Kardashian subsequently disseminated online – are now threatening to sue Google for $100 million, according to a new report.
Page Six are reporting that lawyers representing the women claim the search giant should have been able to remove the images from the internet and, in failing to do so, ‘made millions from the victimization of women’.
Top Hollywood attorney Marty Singer has written a letter toGoogle founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin accusing them of ‘blatantly unethical behavior’ on behalf of over a dozen of the stars involved, the gossip column reported.
‘Because the victims are celebrities with valuable publicity rights you do nothing – nothing but collect millions of dollars in advertising revenue – as you seek to capitalize on this scandal rather than quash it,’ the letter reportedly said.
The exact women involved in the potential lawsuit have not been named. The letter comes after hacked photos from celebrities including Rihianna and Amber Heard were still believed to be easily accessible on social media sites. Two topless images of Rihanna appeared online via 4chan and
Reddit on Sunday while Heard has been one hardest-hit celebrities, with more than 50 nude snaps of her surfacing.
According to TMZ, one featured a message believed to be for her fiancé Johnny Depp. Despite stringent policies about removing abusive content, the images remained in the public sphere today – and were believed to be easily accessible on Twitter.
Another huge wave of leaked images took place around September 20- with nude photos of Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, Kate Bosworth and Hope Solo all being released.
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