
Yesterday we got an e-mail from someone claiming that there was a big conspiracy by some ex friends of Vanessa Hudgens to systematically leak nude photos of her prior to every movie she had coming out. This has happened over three years, where every time Vanessa has a film she needs to promote we just happen to see nude photos of her online. It’s dumb and predictable, but what’s more ridiculous is this long e-mail trying to finger two of Vanessa’s ex friends for it. They sent this to us too, and Kaiser and I looked it over and made the decision not to publish it because it sounded like complete bullsh*t. The Superficial has posted it though, so we may as well add our two cents. This sounds like an excuse Vanessa cooked up. When people make up lies, there’s a tendency to oversell, and this is a definite oversell. I’m not going to include the whole e-mail here – you can read it at The Superficial, but here’s a segment.
In 2006, Kayslee and Alexa were close friends of Vanessa, but they later drifted apart due to Vanessa’s work commitments (The High School Musical movies). Vanessa was especially fond of Alexa, even inviting her to star in her debut music video, to make up for the fact that she had been too busy to spend time with her.
Later that year, Alexa suggested that Vanessa take some racy pictures to keep her boyfriend interested. Vanessa agreed and privately took some naked photos of herself. Kayslee then took photos of Vanessa and Alexa kissing. Alexa and Kayslee took no nude photos of themselves.
Vanessa took more nude photos that year and the next, but she was careful and deleted the pictures from her mobile phone. Vanessa uploaded her pictures to her email account and sent them to her boyfriend, like Alexa had suggested. On one of these occasions, she did this while she was at Alexa’s house. Alexa downloaded the pictures onto her computer when Vanessa accidentally left her email account logged in.
Since September 2007, Alexa and her friend Kayslee have been leaking Vanessa’s pictures every time she has movie coming out. I believe this is because of them being jealous of her successful movie career.
[Received via e-mail, entire version on The Superficial]
I used the social media search tool Spokeo to run the e-mail address this was sent from and it turned up no accounts associated with this address. There was also a Flickr account mentioned in this e-mail to show that one of the girls named here was friends with Hudgens or something. The Flickr account did exist, but there’s no google cache of it and it doesn’t prove anything.
So according to that e-mail, Vanessa wasn’t the one who decided to take those sexy pictures, it was her friend’s idea and her friend’s fault and there’s this big conspiracy to leak the photos to get her publicity before every movie. These girls are just “jealous” of her career, which is such an incredibly predictable cliche excuse.
Then there’s also this drama going on with the story of some ring of hackers allegedly targeting celebrities. (At first TMZ reported it was just women, then their story changed.) TMZ now claims that a bunch of celebrities, sports stars and politicians were victims and the FBI is looking into it. The FBI could be looking into Vanessa’s case, but what does that prove other than the fact that someone contacted them on her behalf? I used to think TMZ was pretty solid when it came to sources, but they regularly run stories from celebrities, like Lohan and Gibson, and act like they’re true without questioning them at all. This story stinks to high heaven.
If this elaborate hacker ring story is true, why haven’t we seen any photos other than Vanessa’s? Granted maybe she had the best ones, but why haven’t we seen any leaked e-mails then? It just seems like yet another smokescreen her people are using to try and deflect from the conclusion that she’s doing this herself. It’s far fetched and doesn’t add up, just like that dumb e-mail. Read what TMZ wrote:
The hackers who are now being investigated by the FBI for allegedly pilfering nude photos and videos of 50 Hollywood celebrities have also been targeting sports stars and D.C.’s most powerful.
Sources connected to the hackers tell TMZ … the cyber-crooks currently have 100 active email addresses of celebrities, politicians and sports stars. We do not know the identity of the sports stars or politicians, but they are all high-profile.
TMZ broke the story … the hackers have snagged nude photos and videos from female stars including Vanessa Hudgens, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, Ali Larter and Demi Lovato. There are no male celebs on the list.
The FBI knows the identity of the ringleader, law enforcement sources tell TMZ.
As for Vanessa Hudgens, our sources say the hackers may have obtained the pictures and videos through a friend who betrayed the actress.
[From TMZ]
So, according to this story there was a ring of hackers and they targeted a bunch of celebrities but Vanessa’s photos are the only ones that got out. Vanessa’s friends knew these hackers and just gave them her photos where the other celebrities whose e-mails and photos we haven’t seen were hacked by the same people. (And even assuming that the “friend’s” e-mail account storing Vanessa’s photos was hacked, how the hell would they know which random e-mail to break into?) Does that make any sense at all? TMZ adds the air of legitimacy to it with the story that the FBI is investigating, but maybe that’s just for Vanessa’s case and the rest of this story is a trumped up excuse.
Photos are from 3/17/11. Credit: Fame

