Lawyers for Jennifer Aniston have warned publications that they will face an invasion of privacy lawsuit if they print topless photos of the actress taken recently while she was apparently sunbathing at her Los Angeles home, according to a report at The Smoking Gun website.
In a blistering letter sent to celebrity magazines, attorney John Lavely wrote that the publication of photographs "showing [Aniston] topless or in the act of taking off or putting on her top" would expose those titles to "substantial monetary damages," the site reported.
The Smoking Gun said that in Lavely's December 3 letter, he wrote that the topless photos were taken by paparazzo Peter Brandt, who allegedly used a "powerful telephoto lens" from a perch more than a mile away from Aniston's home (though the images, TSG has learned, appear to have been snapped from a closer range).
Aniston's counsel pounced two days after Brandt e-mailed the topless photos to magazine editors with the request, "PLEASE KEEP THESE PICTURES TO YOUR SELF...THEY MUST NOT FIND THERE WAY TO THE INTERNET!!!!"
Lavely, of the powerhouse L.A. litigation firm Lavely & Singer, noted that Aniston has just filed a lawsuit against Brandt in Los Angeles Superior Court and that the star's London lawyers had obtained a restraining order barring publication of the topless photos in the U.K, TSG reported.
