Jake Gyllenhaal Threatens Lawsuit Over Semi-Nude Photo

[tampa24]

I find it very interesting that Jake Gyllenhaal who has a very large gay fan following would threaten a lawsuit over a supposedly fake semi-nude photo. He has been in films where his bare butt is shown.

He has hired lawyers claiming defamation of character among other things. This photo would have died a rather quick death if Gyllenhaal hadn't decided to make an issue of it by threatening a lawsuit. From an excerpt of the letter sent to queerty.com (among other gay sites) demanding removal of the picture:

"Your publication of this photo violates many legal rights of our client by, among other things, defaming him, portraying him in a false light, violating his right of publicity and constituting a false designation of origin in violation of the Lanham Act. Demand is hereby made for immediate removal of the fake picture."

The letter goes on with threats to sue for "actual and punitive damages and injunctive relief".

For its part queerty.com is refusing to remove the picture.

Fake celebrity nude photos are all over the internet. His lawsuit stands no chance. In fact I was so sure of it that I was going to post the photo here. (It's very tame.) But then it hit me that Mark would have to decide whether to leave it up, take it down, or be threatened with a lawsuit himself. So I'll just give you the link to it.

http://www.queerty.com/read-the-tak...e-photo-that-we-will-not-be-removing-20110517

 

[juanjo]

Jake's career must be flagging for him to react to the photo in this fashion.

 

[Tome]

Great topic. There have been tons of rumors surrounding Jake's sexuality. Not just because of Brokeback but pre Brokeback. I 100% believe that Jake is gay. His ridiculous Hollywood romances were a joke. Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift. What a joke. Reese was married within months of her supposing breakup with Jake. There is one rule in Hollywood cinema. Leading men cannot be gay.

If anyone has heard the expression Toothy Tile. Toothy Tile is a blind vice about a young actor who leads a double life. Everyone has been eliminate3d but Jake. if anyone is curious Google Toothy Tile. Some great blogs called Waiting for Toothy2 and Oh My Godot are devoted to the subject. Jake is very angry the rumors won't go away. Wonder why??????

 

[centex]

If he is no big deal but he needs to deal with it in his own way and the blood thirsty media needs to leave well alone, it is his business and no body else.

 

[Phantom]

Interesting that he would react this way considering the number of pics out there of him nude in movies. I know that there are real pics that show partial frontal nudity, one of them showing him with an erection. I have seen these pics.

 

[Phantom]

Interesting that he would react this way considering the number of pics out there of him nude in movies. I know that there are real pics that show partial frontal nudity, one of them showing him with an erection. I have seen these pics.

 

[BrokeStraightBoys]

Oh you can link to that I have no issues with that. I can't believe he is making such a fuss over this photo of him in his underwear.

 

[lesit78]

It's a mere publicity stunt.

 

[slimvintage]

queerty recognizes that the photo is probably Jake's head photoshopped onto someone else's body, a body that doesn't actually resemble Jake's very much except in the number of extremities.

The reason he's so cross is that it makes him look nelly, imitating Grace Jones, and assholical, in flimsy tightywhities and striped socks. If someone had morphed his head onto David Beckham's body, posing in the same underpants in the famous ad, he wouldn't be suing. Even if the photo weren't so dorky but still reeked gay, but butch, he wouldn't be so mad. Jack Twist in Brokeback was in love with Ennis Del Mar but he wasn't a sissy.

Jake's handlers know what kind of trouble getting macho roles he might or might not have had after making that movie, and don't want him out there in the ether copying the pose of an iconic black lesbian singer from the eighties with a flattop.