Jake Gyllenhaal’s lawyers are taking action against website bosses who posted a picture online which appears to depict the star in his underwear.
The photo shows the Brokeback Mountain actor in tight white briefs and socks as he stretches on one leg in a pose resembling Grace Jones’ stance on her Island Life album cover.
Gyllenhaal’s legal team has fired off letters to a number of websites, including Queerty.com and Buzzfeed.com, demanding that the photo is removed.
The star’s attorneys write, “As anybody could tell from a cursory examination, this is a fake picture, in which our client’s head has been pasted on the body of another person”, adding that it portrays him “in a false light, violating his right of publicity and constituting a false designation of origin in violation of the Lanham Act”.
But Gyllenhaal has a fight on his hands – chiefs at Queerty.com are refusing to remove the image until it is proved to be a fake: “We’re keeping the photo up, since it hasn’t been proven fake and because their letter bumped it from ‘funny and cute’ to ‘actually newsworthy.'”
Hello,
I defended Jake’s rights and that picture is not being published in 2 very popular Facebook pages thanks to my efforts.
I am very proud of it.
Good for you, Roberta! I don’t understand why he hasn’t taken any other action against the Love & Other Drugs photo with him in the bed – which, i obviously photoshopped and he has stated on Twitter it’s not real. Why this one photo?
Woops, I mean *is photoshopped – I didn’t do it! haha
Lol don’t worry Kelly I think we all got what you meant. I don’t think the bed picture were as spread as this one though.
And Jake Gyllenhaal does NOT have twitter or facebook, he has said so in interviews, any accounts claiming to be him are fake.
Hi Kelly,
thank you for your answer. I am very upset when people publish stupid pictures of Jake which are false and outrageous.
Even if Jake does not have Twitter or Facebook, we, as fans, must protect him.
He is such a great person. He deserves all our efforts. At least mine.