14 DAY TRIAL // Lil' Kim has just been added to the constantly growing list of celebrities who have been targeted by hackers. Her lawyers have announced that a recent posting on the rapper's Facebook account, which denigrates singer and actress Naturi Naughton, is actually the work of a hacker.
The news that Lil' Kim has called Naturi Naughton, who portrays her in the recently released Notorious movie, “tasteless and talentless” has created quite a stir online. The movie tells the life and death of rap legend Christopher Wallace, better known as Notorious B.I.G., who had a intimate relationship with Kim before he went on and married Faith Evans.
“I feel like I was not portrayed how I should have been in this movie. I was in love with BIG and he was in love with me. I was never a JUMP-OFF, I know this and BIG knew this. I wasn’t even able to choose who I wanted to portray me in this movie,” Kim allegedly wrote on her Facebook page, expressing her disapproval of Naturi being chosen for this role.
“Watching her on-screen was so 'dreadful' as Simon Cowell would say. She is tasteless and talentless. Never once did she contact me for input or to get a feel of me for the character,” the post continued, concluding that “Naturi has got to be one of THE worst actresses I’ve ever seen, and I can’t believe they chose her. I really can’t!”
However, while it makes for good celebrity gossip, the defamatory posting proves nothing more than the work of an online prankster, who has obtained unauthorized access to the singer's Facebook account through yet-to-be disclosed means. “The statement posted up on Facebook was done by someone falsely portraying themselves to be Lil Kim and is completely untrue. They have been contacted to remove immediately or legal action will be taken,” Bernard H. Jackson III, Kim's attorney, commented, according to the Pop Media Examiner.
This incident comes after just a few days ago one of Kim's fellow rappers, Kanye West, practically begged hackers to stop harassing him. “Please I beg you, give me a break!!!! […] Who have I hurt so bad that they want to destroy me? Who have I ever spoke about so negatively?,” the rap star wrote on his blog, after unknown individuals hacked his e-mail and MySpace account and impersonated him online through fake Twitter and Skype accounts.
It seems like impersonating celebrities is becoming one of this year's new hacking trends. Earlier this month, fake and defamatory messages have been posted on the official Twitter pages of Britney Spears, Rick Sanchez, and even Barack Obama. They were the results of 33 high profile accounts being compromised after a, probably now unhappy, Twitter admin used “happiness” as her password.