Actor Mischa Barton is the victim of “revenge pornography,” her attorney said Tuesday, threatening legal action against anyone touting sexually explicit images of the 31-year-old actor.
Several media outlets have reported the existence of a tape of the The OC star taking part in sex acts with an unidentified man, dressed in a black hoodie.
A broker said the tape was being touted around pornographic websites, with an asking price of $500,000, the Daily Mail newspaper reported on Monday.
“It has been reported that naked or sexually explicit images of Ms Barton are being ‘shopped around,'” attorney Lisa Bloom said in a statement released via Twitter.
“Ms Barton does not consent to any disclosure of any such images. She believes she was recorded without her consent by someone she was seeing at the time. There’s a name for this disgusting conduct: revenge pornography.”
