Aniston Orders Cover-Up
If you want to see Jennifer Aniston's bosom, you're going to have to buy GQ.
The actress, showing off one of her Friends in profile on the December cover of the men's magazine, has launched a preemptive war against pictures that let them all hang out.
In a letter apparently sent Saturday to celebrity news types and made public Monday by TheSmokingGun.com, Aniston attorney John H. Lavely Jr. warns that the publication of "certain photographs" of the 36-year-old star sans top, "or in the act of taking off or putting on her top" will result in some very bad things.
According to the missive posted on the Website, Lavely charges that the topless photos were snapped by shutterbug Peter Brandt who, "using powerful telephoto lenses," and sitting "more than one mile away from Ms. Aniston's home," captured The Good Girl in the act of disrobing in her own abode. (Brandt could not be located for comment Monday.)
Publication of the shots, Lavely says, would amount to the violation of Aniston's privacy.
Lest the legal threat not be taken seriously, the letter explains at length that Aniston should be taken seriously. Already sued, it says, is Brandt, ID'd in a 2003 MTV News report as one of L.A.'s "notorious paparazzi photographers." (The complaint was filed Friday in Los Angeles, City News Service reported.) And in London, the letter says, a restraining order awaits any publication that dares to go to press with the topless photos. (According to CNS, a similar order is being sought in the States, as part of the Brandt lawsuit.)
Aniston has blown her top over topless photos before--and won. In 2000, she sued, and secured settlements from, magazines in Europe and the United States that ran shots of her sunbathing in a one-piece--the bottom piece--in her backyard. From the man accused of passing the shots to an Italian photo agency, she won a cool $550,000.
There was no word, meanwhile, if Aniston was blowing her top, figuratively, over news that ex-husband Brad Pitt has gone to court to become the adoptive father of Angelina Jolie's two children.
Children, or lack thereof, were rumored to be the leading cause of Aniston and Pitt's demise. The two, who denied the reproductive issue was an issue, divorced in October after five years of marriage.
While Pitt has moved on, in an as-yet unofficial way with Jolie, Aniston has moved on, in an as-yet unofficial way with Vince Vaughn, with whom she shared a "minor traffic violation" incident in Arizona last week. Vaughn was the driver, and Aniston his passenger, when their car was pulled over by police. No citations were issued.
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