Victory for actress who sued over revenge porn
AN AMERICAN actress and singer is to receive “substantial” damages from her ex-boyfriend after becoming the first person to sue in the British courts over revenge porn.
Chrissy Chambers, a Youtube star from Los Angeles, was filmed without her knowledge by a British ex-boyfriend who later uploaded the videos to a pornogrwaphy website.
Ms Chambers, who runs a Youtube channel for teenage girls with partner Bria Kam, had a relationship with the man, known only as DCR for legal reasons, from 2008 to 2009, counsel Alex Marzec told the High Court.
She told judge Sir David Eady that in September 2009, DCR recorded films of them having sex at her home in Atlanta, Georgia, without her knowledge.
In December 2011 and January 2012, unbeknown to Ms Chambers, DCR uploaded six films to pornographic website Redtube.com. She found out about the films 19 months later and contacted the website to have them removed.
Ms Chambers conducted a crowdfunding campaign to bring the claim, which was settled out of court late last year but became public yesterday when it was read out in court.
Ms Chambers celebrated victory by proposing to Ms Kam on the steps of the court after speaking to reporters.
After accepting, Ms Kam said her fiancée was the “bravest, most incredible human being that I’ve ever met”.
Ms Chambers said the episode had caused her to suffer “panic, depression, PTSD and alcoholism”.