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Los Angeles police have found the woman who was photographed while nude as she changed clothes in a Los Angeles gym and then body-shamed by Playboy model Dani Mathers.
According to TMZ, the woman, who’s in her 70s, wants Mathers to be punished and is “more than willing” to testify and cooperate in any way possible to bring her to justice.
Mathers, 29, photographed the nude woman at an LA Fitness gym in Los Angeles and posted it to Snapchat in July with this caption:
If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either.
Next, Mathers posted a photo of herself, laughing and covering her mouth.
The 2015 Playboy Playmate of the Year was roundly criticized for publicly sharing the picture and body-shaming the targeted woman.
Mathers apologized for her actions and then disappeared from Twitter with this note:
I’m sorry for what I did… I need to take some time to myself now to reflect on why I did this horrible thing. Goodnight.
— Dani Mathers (@DaniMathers) July 14, 2016
She also deleted the body-shaming post from Snapchat, switched some of her other social media accounts to private, and explained, in a video posted to Snapchat, that her misstep was an accident:
I just wanted to acknowledge a photo I accidentally posted here on Snapchat earlier today and let you know… that was absolutely wrong and not what I meant to do.
I know that body-shaming is wrong. That is not the type of person I am.
After Mathers shared the surreptitiously captured image, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) received a report of “illegal distribution” and launched an investigation into the incident, Capt. Andrew Neiman told The Los Angeles Times.
The LAPD asked the body-shamed woman to come forward, seeing as they couldn’t continue their investigation without her, according to the Daily News.
LA Fitness reported the post to police and revoked Mathers’ membership, barring her for life from its entire chain. Jill Greuling, LA Fitness executive vice president of operations, told ABC News.
Her behavior is appalling & puts members @ risk. We ended membership & she can’t use any club. It’s not just our rule, it’s common decency.
— LA Fitness (@LAFitness) July 15, 2016
Mathers was also suspended from her job at a local radio program, TMZ reported.
The Office of Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer told ABC News on Monday that it’s mulling whether to press charges, as the LAPD has urged:
We did receive the case from the LAPD. It’s currently under review from our office. We will be making a final decision soon, but there’s no timetable at this point.
Dissemination of a private image is a misdemeanor charge. If the LA city attorney decides to prosecute, Mathers could be facing a maximum jail sentence of 6 months.
Good. It’s important for people to know that this kind of behaviour is not acceptable for anybody.
“I know that body-shaming is wrong. That is not the type of person I am.”
Obviously, it is exactly the type of hateful, judgmental, shallow person she is. I hope she gets the harshest sentence possible.
Agreed, 100%. Though it’s currently not illegal to be a dick, so only confidentiality-related charges will apply. Even the 6-month sentence is likely to be commuted to first-offense probation (though the high-profile nature of this could give the prosecution more momentum).
As Tom mentioned, the real punitive condition will be the difficulty finding sponsors and glamorous “work,” curtailing the overpaid lifestyle a typical (yes, but roll with me) girl in her position might enjoy. The stigma will subside, and she’ll find something, but it’ll hopefully take long enough to inspire significant** introspection first.
** far more than what she’s done, as she no doubt already thinks she’s ruminated thoroughly
While jail time (probably suspended or community service or some other non punishment) is more than appropriate, any sponsors should cut ties with her. For someone like this, that’s real punishment.
Maybe she needs the 6 months of jail time to think about what she has done and why. Why is she so insecure that she would bully this older woman? I would rather be a nice person and be beautiful on the inside rather than someone who is so ugly on the inside. After all, looks only last so long.
To publish an image like this is thoughtless and cruel to begin with, but to do it to a woman of that age? Does she think that she’s going to still look like she does now in 45 years? This is what happens when you tell young women that our bodies are the most (or even only) important thing about us.
She accidentally posted the pic & it wasn’t what she meant to do??? Of course she meant to post it & it wasn’t an accident, she wanted to make fun of someone who doesn’t have a good body anymore…I wonder if she realises that she won’t have the body of a playboy one day… Life happens & anything could disfigure her body at anytime during her life….Stupid girl…
the biggest thing is that what she did was no “accident”… it was done on purpose and with “malice aforethought”… she knew exactly what she was doing when she took the picture specifically for sharing with others…
Anyone who would do something this horrible should be prosecuted to the fullest. As women, aging is hard on a lot of us as we gain weight, things start to sag, we get wrinkles, etc. How demeaning to have that all put on display for the world to see!!!! I hate looking at myself in the mirror and I’m only in my 50’s!
I only now saw you reply Ka. I’m 30 and no matter how you look and what ppl say keep one thing in mind, you have lived and survived in this world for at least 1.5 billion Seconds on this earth and each second makes your body age and leaves traces. Those traces are bad ones but also good ones, there are memories of good moments and bad moments and all this is packed into a such small room as a body. If we had to pack all this “DATA” into a computer it would be really expensiv. So you are reallly precious! You say you hate to look at yourself, don’t look at those places you don’t like but look on those you like. You don’t want to remember those bad memories you keep them to be aware for the next time to not make the same mistake, but you prefer to remember the nice ones so do the same with the Mirror. I have absolutly no Idea what you look like but there is absolutly NOTHING out there that is as wonderfull as a living individual, LIVING = beeing alive and beeing able to feel, smell, see and taste the world we live in and INDIVIDUAL= nobody is same as the anybody else not even identical twins. Your body is telling a storry of what you have lived so far so read it and enjoy all of it IT’S YOUR LIFE with all those nice memories and moments. I wish you a nice day and to everybody out there thinking the same!
I hate such ppl. The internet is full of ppl blaming others but having complexes them self. NOBODY is perfect and it was never intended to be perfect. As perfection means that all is at goal so 0 movement, 0 movement is what happens when all energy has been absorbed and so it’s equal to death. by this equation you can say that perfection = death. Who wants to be death? So it’s good to be like we are and blaming a woman that is in the 70s and still doing sports is simply stupid and a sign of missing maturity. What does she think that age will do with her? And she’s a playmate so she’s building all her life and business on her “beauty”, what will happen to her when she becomes old and she’s no longer beautifull as of here standards? will be hard times. That she now is appologizing is so hypocrite.
This victimized woman was at health club, presumably working out and trying to get healthy. And having her naked picture posted is her reward? I hope she sues Mathers for everything she has. Mathers’ behavior is truly the worst.
Someone posted “what she will look like 45 years from now”. The problem is that in that amount of time the scientists will probably figured out and where to find the aging gene and alter it accordingly. Sooooo, nothing at all may happen to her later in life.
Just something to think about.
As if she isnt going to age and we cant all have a plastic surgeon as a best friend … what a complete bimbo.
I wonder if this princess has considered what her body will look like should she live to reach her 70’s,
Shame on the spiteful, air headed brat who posted the photo. Kudos to the Lady in her 70s who goes to the gym and has the courage to speak up for herself. A perfect punishment would be for the brat to do community service in a retirement or care home for a few years assisting seniors with all their daily needs.
Looking forward to watching Mathers on “Dancing with the Stars” and “Celebrity Apprentice” when she gets out.
She didn’t ‘accidentally’ post those, not with the second one. She shouldn’t even had a camera in there. Jail works best with some types of people, when it’s just long enough to see what it’s like, have to do personal things etc… Seems like about a week chills most out… IMHO.
I suspect Ms Mathers is not a person with high self esteem. Any person who makes a living out of allowing him or herself to be ogled has issues. She will find it difficult as she ages, which will happen all too soon and she will find herself no longer acceptable to her current voyeur market. In this respect she is something of a victim, I really wonder how she was brought up to be the person she is today. All bodies are beautiful no matter what stage of life and deserve respect. People are loved for their whole person, not what they look like.
Would she like it if someone would do this to her mother or grandmother!?!
I hope I will look as good as this 70 year old woman when I am 70. I also hope I will hit the gym then, too. She must be in good shape and / or is highly motivated if she hits the gym. Well done! She is obviously doing something right.
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The 29 year old bully should spend a few months in county jail for her malicious and illegal act. While there, she might realize that, if she lives long enough, she will eventually lose whatever looks she has regardless of how hard she works to maintain her face and body. I doubt the 29 year old bully will be fit or motivated enough to hit the gym when she is 70.
This chica is clueless, lowlife and now is playing the victim? The last place she she should be apologizing is to snap-chat or twitter. The person she needs to be apologizing to is the woman. Because more than likely that woman has no idea what is going on in the inter-webs. Maybe she does now because LA Officials have finally caught up to her.
Give me a break. She is most definately a stupid young girl that made an ignorant mistake. Does she really need to go to jail for that? When did everyone become such sensitive pansies? Isn’t part of growing knowing how to cope with stupidity? If either of my grandmas found a picture online of themselves online being shamed I doubt they would whine to social media. Get a backbone!