14 DAY TRIAL // As a model, Kate Upton isn’t afraid to shed all clothes for a photoshoot if that’s what the photographer and the magazine ask her to do. However, when it comes to fake nude pics, she draws the line and even gets her attorneys on the case.
The stunning blonde is going after a website that usually runs only fake lewd photos of celebrities, which also included a photo of her purporting to be a leaked shot from her latest Sports Illustrated spread. TMZ reports that she’s already had her people send the website a cease and desist letter, and is now weighing her legal options.
According to the e-zine, Kate’s legal team “doesn’t even care” that the photo is obviously a fake, because it’s using her name to get clicks. Moreover, one of the attorneys says in the cease and desist letter, “One of these photographs has even been airbrushed.”
The photo is accompanied by a short post that tries to argue that whenever Sports Illustrated runs a spread with models in bodypaint, the models are actually all-natural, not wearing anything and the bodysuit is added in post-production in Photoshop, when all “flaws” are removed.
So, they say, they got their hands on this photo of Kate that shows infinitely more than any photo SI has ever printed because it’s the pre-Photoshop version. In fact, the photo is a crude one that places Kate’s body on a nude model’s body.
In response to the cease and desist letter, the website has printed even more fake photos with “Kate,” even saying that she can’t possibly win in court because “as pious Muslims we must only obey Shariah law, and thus can only be taken to trial in a Shariah court” and because “as a woman, Kate is livestock.”
So her legal action is as “laughable” as that of a cow trying to sue the dairy company for milking her.
The website boasts of being the only one run by Islamist extremists and whoever is keeping it online is definitely unfazed by legal threats, even when they come from someone as famous as Kate Upton.
In fact, the same website was also sued by country pop singer Taylor Swift, who, in 2011, was the object of a similar post that claimed a compromising photo of her had “leaked.” The uproar was even bigger then, as Taylor’s fans also rose up in arms to ask for the site to be shut down.
Their victory consisted in having the fake photos removed. Kate can’t say the same, so far.