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Jessica's Hustled - Porn mag to run topless pics of G.I.
New York Daily News ^ | 11/11/03 | GEORGE RUSH

Posted on 11/11/2003 1:09:19 AM PST by kattracks

A skin mag claimed yesterday it has pictures of Iraqi POW Jessica Lynch frolicking topless with male soldiers before she went off to war. A spokesman for the 20-year-old Army private - the subject of Sunday's TV movie on NBC that drew 14.9 million viewers - called the plan by Hustler magazine to publish the purported photos "unspeakable."

"Leave it to [Hustler publisher] Larry Flynt to do something like this," said Paul Bogaards of Alfred Knopf, publisher of "I Am A Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," which is being released today.

"Jessica Lynch was left for dead and left as a prisoner of war," Bogaards told the Daily News. "If she can survive that, she can survive anything."

Bogaards said he had not asked Lynch about the magazine's claim of topless photos, but added: "It's unspeakable that someone would stoop to these levels. ... The press has been using Jessica Lynch to serve its own needs."

Lynch's new torment erupted the day before Veterans Day - and on the same night she made a dramatic appearance at a Manhattan awards event with fellow rescued POW Shoshana Johnson and pop star Britney Spears.

Lynch, walking in public for the first time since her rescue, used crutches to enter the American Museum of Natural History for Glamour magazine's 2003 salute to the "Women of the Year."

Flynt said he plans to run the photos he says he has in Hustler's February issue, which goes on sale the first week of January.

He claimed they show Lynch topless and cavorting with two men stationed with her at Fort Bliss, Tex., before she shipped off to Iraq last spring.

According to two people who have seen them, the person they identify as Lynch is wearing just jeans in one photo and a blue thong in another.

Flynt said the pictures - which he claimed to have gotten from two former soldiers who served with Lynch - would prove "she's not Joan of Arc."

"I'm not interested in bashing Jessica Lynch, who really was a victim in this," Flynt insisted. But he said the Lynch book and movie "should have been an honest portrayal of her role in the war. Everyone wanted a hero from this war."

Calls to Lynch's lawyer were not returned.

Flynt said Hustler consulted an outside "photo enhancement lab" to establish that the woman in the photos was Lynch. "You think I'm going to publish nude pics that aren't her?" asked Flynt, who is believed to have paid six figures for the shots. "I like owning my company."

Last year, Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione was hit with a costly lawsuit after he wrongly claimed to have topless pictures of tennis star Anna Kournikova.

Last night, Lynch and Johnson both received awards at the Glamour magazine event.

Lynch walked up the red carpet on crutches with Johnson at her side. She wore a black gown embroidered with red roses, and sneakers - the only shoes she can wear because of a brace on her left leg.

A posthumous award was presented in the memory of Lori Piestewa, the first female U.S. soldier killed in Iraq. Lynch, Johnson and Piestewa were in the same unit.

"This Glamour Women of the Year event honors heroes," Lynch said. "To me, the real heroes are those who have given their lives for our nation, the soldiers who risked their lives to rescue me, the professionals who served in the military medical department - they perform miracles every day to save lives. To me, these are heroes."

Originally published on November 11, 2003



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bodwithoutaface; bunk; jessicalynch; publicitystunt
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To: kattracks
okay, who's got 'em?
41 posted on 11/11/2003 5:26:31 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: kattracks
Too bad the shooter only left Larry Flynt in a wheel chair. The world could do without him.
42 posted on 11/11/2003 5:34:15 AM PST by The Scorpion King
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To: kattracks
I don't doubt for one second the pics exist.

This is just one more example of how placing women in combat roles is just not working.

Jessica sought to make a million (or two) off of this - now she's finding out what it is going to cost her in terms of personal privacy and happiness.

Hope she enjoys her money.

43 posted on 11/11/2003 5:51:17 AM PST by Happy2BMe (Nurture terrorism in a neighborhood near you - donate to your local community mosque.)
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To: zarf
"Maybe we need to get hammered again by the ragheads before we wake up."

It's looking more and more like that is the road we are still travelling.

Sometimes, all Americans are as dumb as New Yorkers.

44 posted on 11/11/2003 5:52:55 AM PST by Happy2BMe (Nurture terrorism in a neighborhood near you - donate to your local community mosque.)
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To: Huck
Comedy at it's best!
45 posted on 11/11/2003 6:39:35 AM PST by B4Ranch (Wave your flag, dont waive your rights!)
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To: Happy2BMe
I don't doubt for one second the pics exist.

They probably do --- and anyone who poses nude or in sex shots should realize what can become of their pictures. She wants to be famous ---- she needs to realize there are consequences for that.

46 posted on 11/11/2003 6:45:37 AM PST by FITZ
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To: NYCVirago
"She posed for them!"

She did? She posed? Where did you read that?

The way I read it, there were two pictures taken of her "frolicking" and "cavorting" -- sounds to me as though the pictures were taken surreptitiously or, at worst, spontaneously and casually.

47 posted on 11/11/2003 6:58:17 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: kattracks
What does it do for unit cohesion and military readiness when one grunt is posing topless to tittilate her pals?
48 posted on 11/11/2003 7:35:53 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Police officials view armed citizens like teachers union bosses view homeschoolers.)
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To: zarf
I remember a post someone made about a week after 9/11 which was a montage of all the silly garbage that America was longing to get back to because the terrorists disrupted their "lifestyles". It was sad but so true.
49 posted on 11/11/2003 8:06:54 AM PST by Egg
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To: kattracks
Interesting how the Daily News claims that Flynt will publish them...without actually attributing the statement to him in any way, through press statement or actual recorded conversation. Read the other thread on this here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1019175/posts
from the New York Post and you get the completely different story that Flynt bought them to keep them from being run.

Who really runs the Daily News? I know the Post is a Murdoch production...not surprisingly it actually tells the truth there.
50 posted on 11/11/2003 8:15:06 AM PST by Herodotus
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To: Stopislamnow
They could be considered profiteering from a soldier or veterans duress..

How could frolicking topless with one's co-workers be considered to have happened "under duress"?
51 posted on 11/11/2003 8:17:14 AM PST by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
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To: ought-six
She willingly posed for these photos

Care to back that up?

52 posted on 11/11/2003 8:23:24 AM PST by cyncooper
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To: kattracks
Is there anyone who hasn't pose nude for photos?
53 posted on 11/11/2003 8:24:52 AM PST by biblewonk (I must answer all bible questions.)
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To: kattracks
Someday, Flynt will have to explain his actions to Someone who doesnt recognize the 1st Ammendment as a reason for living such a hateful life...
54 posted on 11/11/2003 8:25:52 AM PST by cardinal4 (Hillary and Clark rhymes with Ft Marcy park...)
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To: AppyPappy
>> White House spokesman Joe Lockhart describing Hustler as a ``news magazine'' <<

THAT was a classic. And he said it with a straight face.

Wonder what kind of cushy sinecure Joe found?
55 posted on 11/11/2003 8:43:24 AM PST by jaime1959
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To: kattracks
This is really disgusting! It makes my stomach turn! This kid will have head problems and I hope the VA will give her quality mental health care. Women should not be in combat zones. Period. I'm a Mother and I served in the Navy in the early '80's. Would you allow your daughter's to serve in combat zones to be raped by the enemy? Then be molested by Larry Flynt and the anti-war crowd? She is only a naive twenty year old and she is already putting down the war effort. Please read Nov 11th article, "Lynch Book Says Iraqi Doctors Were Saviors," by Erin McClam-AP. This political correctness has to stop at the Pentagon. The feminist had their golden experiment and they're doing more harm than good. Please sign a petition to President Bush to stop putting women in the front lines. www.americansforthemilitary.com (Center for Military Readiness)
56 posted on 11/11/2003 9:24:49 AM PST by Milligan
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To: bullseye1911
I must agree with you there. I was raised with (and passed on to my kids) this admonition: Don't lie, Don't steal, Don't let people take nekkid pictures of you!!!Regards.

Those are pretty darn good words to live by!

57 posted on 11/11/2003 9:25:41 AM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Milligan
I'm a Mother and I served in the Navy in the early '80's. Would you allow your daughter's to serve in combat zones to be raped by the enemy?

Believe it or not, there have been several female posters on FR who have said that rape is an acceptable price to be paid for serving your country. I mean, every woman who signs up knows she runs the risk of getting raped, right?

58 posted on 11/11/2003 9:28:48 AM PST by independentmind
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To: robertpaulsen
She did? She posed? Where did you read that? The way I read it, there were two pictures taken of her "frolicking" and "cavorting" -- sounds to me as though the pictures were taken surreptitiously or, at worst, spontaneously and casually.

Let me put it this way. She ran around topless with not one but two guys. A third person was able to take pix. Call me a prude, but she shouldn't have been flashing her boobs to at least two of her fellow soldiers. What, was she auditioning for "Military Girls Gone Wild"?

59 posted on 11/11/2003 9:35:18 AM PST by NYCVirago
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To: muawiyah
First off, this guy has claimed to have photos many times when he had nothing. (Thinking of a Presidential candidate dancing nude on top of a bar in a nightclub?)

That was Matt Drudge who wrote that, not Larry Flynt.

60 posted on 11/11/2003 9:41:39 AM PST by NYCVirago
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