AJ Lee Fake Nude Photo Controversy Update

Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter last week that Divas Champion AJ Lee "was one of the latest victims in the latest batch of celebrity nude photos leaked that included the likes of Lady Gaga, Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johansson and Kaley Cuoco." He noted that his report was incorrect.

"The note in last week's issue about a nude photo of A.J. Lee leaking on the Internet was not correct," Meltzer stated in this week's issue. "It was a nude photo of a woman who greatly resembled A.J. Lee, similar face and same hairstyle clearly trying to look like her, but wasn't her, so we apologize for the mistake."

On Friday, Lee addressed the controversy after a fan wrote via Twitter, "I HATE to Disappoint everyone in #WWE Universe the alleged @WWEAJLee #AJLee photo well the main 1 floating around is [adult star name] not AJ lol." She responded, "Is this a thing? Thanks, I think."

The purported photo has actually been circulating on Twitter for about a year and was labeled a look-a-like by the account that first posted it. The adult star in the photo acknowledged it when asked on Twitter whether it's her by the same fan who Lee responded to. She wrote, "lol. Yea, thats me."

Since Aug. 31, photo of various celebrities?mostly consisting of women, and with many containing nudity, have been leaking on the imageboard 4chan, and later disseminated by other users on websites and social networks. The images were believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple's cloud services suite iCloud. Apple later confirmed that the hackers responsible for the leak had obtained the images using a "very targeted attack" on account information, such as passwords, rather than any specific security vulnerability in the iCloud service itself.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

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