Penthouse Sued Over Topless Not-Quite-Kournikova Pics
from the see-if-you-can-follow-this dept.
A U.S. District Judge in New York has issued an injunction requiring Penthouse magazine to stop distributing its June issue, and to refrain from posting on its web site a series of images allegedly showing tennis player Anna Kournikova topless. The injunction comes in the wake of a suit filed Monday not by Kournikova (who denies the pictures are of her), but by 28-year-old Judith Soltesz-Benetton, daughter-in-law of fashion designer Luciano Benetton, who says the pictures are of her. The part that has me wondering is Soltesz-Benetton’s motivation: I can see her being upset that photos snapped of her flashing her rack on Spring break in Florida (or something; I’m not clear on the circumstances) had found their way into the magazine, but wouldn’t it maybe have been better, at least from the icky-publicity standpoint, just to keep quiet about the whole thing?
June 4th, 2004 at 6:12 am
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