Chicago Woman Sues Ex-Boyfriend Over Posting Intimate Pictures on Porn Site

thumb_computer_assault_2In Chicago, Jessica Voth has filed a torts case against her former boyfriend Miles Marsh after he allegedly posted “intimate and personal pictures” of her on a website called exgfpics — or “exgirlfriend pictures.” The site itself appears to cater to such hostile and juvenile acts of ex-boyfriends. However, the site is not being sued and has protections under federal law.

Voth and Marsh were student together at Lake Forest College and, after they broke up on Valentine’s Day in 2006, Voth insists that she told Marsh to destroy the pictures — which she said she was reluctant to take in the first place. Marsh refused but allegedly promise to keep them private.

Voth was informed of the pictures by a friend who said that he saw them online.

The lawsuit accused Marsh of intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, and other charges.

Recently, a federal court ruled against Hustler Magazine in the use of nude pictures of a the deceased wife of Wrestler Chris Benoit.. That ruling, however, was based on the right to publicity rather than privacy. Privacy cases are more difficult when you voluntarily gave photos to another individual, as opposed to the recent McDonald’s case. Nevertheless, there can be an action if Marsh took the pictures under the express understanding that they would remain private.

Regardless of the law, of course, none of this changes the fact that Miles Marsh is a colossal jerk if the allegations are true. It takes someone without an ounce of humanity, intellect, or maturity to post such pictures. Perhaps such lawsuits will achieve one desired social objective: to discourage others from relationships (or worse yet, breeding) with the men who post on this site.

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23 thoughts on “Chicago Woman Sues Ex-Boyfriend Over Posting Intimate Pictures on Porn Site”

  1. Hi everyone,

    First off, let me say that I had to register a new account so that I could stay anonymous talking about this. A lot of you might be able to recognize who I am based on the information, because I’ve talked about it privately. I don’t want any of my real life friends or family to find out about this just yet, so please respect my attempt to stay private.

    My problem is that my husband has been acting really strangely lately. He’s almost completely normal when he’s around me, we still talk just as much, and we spend roughly the same amount of time together. There are still a host of problems, though. For one, he’s not as interested in… physical intimacy, as he was before. We’ve been married for about five years, and have been making love steadily about two or three times a week — until a couple months ago, when it suddenly dropped off to more like two or three times a month. The other thing is that he’s been going to the gym a whole lot more lately. I keep telling him that I think he’s beautiful as he is, but he has a new obsession with getting even more muscular than he already is. I don’t really MIND so much, because, well, my man’s pretty hot. But it’s a weird change in routine.

    The thing that makes me worried the most, though, is that a couple days ago I went to type an address into the web browser on our desktop computer. When I started typing, a weird address came up in the recent sites list — a dating site. I don’t really know much about this kind of thing, but this is the site in case it matters at all. Now, I know that I can’t hold a candle to these young women he could find on there physically, but I can’t believe my husband would actually cheat on me just because of that! In fact, I’m holding up rather well for my age (35), I work out… but I guess I’m just not as attractive as a 20 year old :-\

    So my question is… what do I do next? Do I confront him? I feel like this is hardly rock-solid evidence of anything, and I certainly don’t want to ruin my marriage if I’m wrong. I don’t know what to do. Help please!

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