Today, March 12th the NY POST reported that Natalie Portman had to go to court to deal with a stalker, and that Natalie's been troubled by incidents of sexual abuse.
NATALIE, do you KNOW what is going on in the sneaky "adults only" section of eBay?
Here's the NY POST:
Natalie Portman was "Sexualized" as a child star?
She's being "SEXUALIZED" right now...degraded, humiliated, and sold by a bunch of EBAY SELLERS.
They sell fake images as REAL and they slice nude scenes out of copyrighted movies, too.
EBAY not only allows this, EBAY encourages it. EBAY will let a "power seller" like Patricia Crain (PKC527) keep selling 5,000 nude images a day despite having NO PERMISSION and NO MODEL RELEASES. Why? She's a power seller. (She's a traitor to her gender. There's a separate entry on her, posted last week).
EBAY has NO policy stating that Naked Celebrity images can't be sold. Or FAKE images. Or STOLEN images. Or freeze-frame nude scenes from copyrighted movies. At best, reporting to "Offensive Materials" or "ADULTS ONLY: Not Allowed At All" may get the item removed IF whoever is on duty feels like removing it. It's subjective. It also seems to be based on whether the seller is a POWER seller.
EBAY will remove the images IF the star objects.
NATALIE PORTMAN, why aren't you objecting?
Is it because you don't know? This is a big problem. For obvious reasons, agents and managers don't list their clients. They deal with a small circle of film studios, Comic-Con places, and promoters. They don't want to hear from fans saying "Look at these Portman photos, please do something." Their attitude is SHOW ME THE MONEY and DON'T PUT ANYONE ON THE PHONE TO ME who isn't going to MAKE ME SOME MONEY.
EBAY sellers prey on celebrity women who can't be reached easily by Twitter, Facebook or even an official website (if they bother to have one). Portman? Her dot com is just a fan-run fan site! It's not authorized by her.
NATALIE PORTMAN is complaining she's been "sexualized" and that she's got a stalker. Let's see SOME of the SEXUALIZED images EBAY SELLERS are offering today.
NATALIE, this stuff can be removed (and a dozen more...these are just a few samples). The irony is that even the fan who runs your FAN SITE could do it, and probably would be happy to do it. All EBAY needs is for you to sign off on it.
NOTE the last one: this seller conveniently sells DOZENS of fake-nude images of stars, and claims the stars SIGNED THEM.
EBAY? "We don't know if this seller is selling forgeries. A dozen famous women from Natalie Portman to Scarlet Johansson and back, may have signed fake nude images for this seller. All we know is we get a percentage of everything he sells, AND we get paid for anything he puts on our site!" It takes a few big stars to be pissed off big time, and contact VERO@EBAY.COM about it.
Portman's fan site has a link to TIME'S UP. How's that for irony? Her DOTCOM seems to have a SEXUALIZED nude picture of her on the right side of the opening page. Hmmmmmmm.....
Natalie, or anyone who knows her, sorry about your stalker. You don't need MORE of them. You need to join your sisters who have VeRO reps on eBay and take a minute or two to make sure nothing evil is sold on EBAY the biggest website for AMATEUR COMMERCE (Amazon and Walmart don't have an adult section!)
According to phone support, Ebay is well aware of Patricia K. Crain having cheated THEM out of thousands of dollars (by putting her contact information in her ads and by directing people to pay by check or money order and NOT actually BUY by hitting BUY IT NOW).
They know that this seller has been stopped by VeRO reps a half dozen times. OR MORE.
They know that this seller not only sells illegal upskirt images of stars, hidden camera pictures of stars, and doctored up photos of stars, but is STILL DOING IT. Here's the BRITNEY SPEARS image which is still on the site. Crain loves to steal TV stills and screen captures and sell those, too, including the "kink" moment on DIANA RIGG.
What ELSE has Crain sold on DIANA RIGG? FAKE NUDE IMAGES
More of this seller's obnoxious, misogynistic, sociopathic material is on previous posts that have asked WHY IS THIS MANIAC STILL SELLING ON EBAY AFTER ALL THIS TIME AND ALL THE COMPLAINTS AND STOPPAGES.
The answer? "She's a power seller..."
In other words, when you have 8,000 illegal auctions (she has NO permission from ANYONE to counterfeit photos and sell them), eBay looks the other way.
An eBay employee who circulated a Photoshop image of a female employee at eBay would, of course, be FIRED INSTANTLY.
An eBay seller who was sneaking only 50 or 100 fake nudes would be suspended very quickly. Sellers who offer "clean" photos but get a few VeRO (verified rights owner) stoppages from Disney or Star Trek or Harry Potter or whoever...get suspended fast.
But here's a POWER SELLER who mostly preys on other women, runs 8,000 auctions every day, and gives eBay a BIG FAT AMOUNT OF MONEY for letting her run an EBAY STORE.
She gets V.I.P. treatment, which means not even a "restriction" for a day, or a "restriction" limiting her to only selling a few 100 items as punishment for her crimes.
Call it what it is: CORRUPTION. Ebay is just another CORRUPT big-time INTERNET SITE that makes up its own rules. The fact that so many employees are embarrassed and disgusted by Crain's auctions matters little to whoever runs "Risk Management" and the "Trust and Safety" departments, or who work for....
51 year old CEO Devin Wenig
or
56 year old Marie Huber the WOMAN in charge of legal issues on eBay
or
52 year old Wendy Jones the WOMAN who is Senior Vice President of Operations.
or
51 year old Kirstin Yetto the WOMAN who is Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer
EBAY should outright BAN celebrity nude images in the hidden ADULT section of the site. How would Diana Rigg know that her image is being Photoshopped if it's hidden so only PERVS know where to find it? That's like allowing a whore house next to a school, as long as WHORE HOUSE isn't in bright lights over the doorway. It's still illegal and dangerous.
EBAY should not allow amateurs to sell NUDE PHOTOS of ANY WOMAN. There is a FEDERAL LAW that requires pornographers to have signed model releases of AGE AND CONSENT. Ebay should have that, too. If a seller is not a professional who works for a well known adult company, that seller should have to send EBAY model releases of age and consent.
This would not only protect Britney Spears, Diana Rigg and the others, but protect ALL women who are being sold on eBay via "found photo" and "my wife's friend" and "hot neighbor" images.
EVERY member of the SCREEN ACTORS GUILD should be told about this problem, and they should have a VeRO rep. That way, more sellers can be blocked or suspended, more women protected, and MORE MONEY CAN GO TO CHARITY. Yes, a VeRO rep also has the power to tell someone, "You can't sell your dupe image UNLESS you give a percentage to charity."
That way, DIANA RIGG could tell Patricia K. Crain, "You can NO LONGER sell fake images of me, and you can also NO LONGER sell "Avengers" photos of me or ANY clothed photos of me UNLESS 50% goes to the charity of my choice, and the money is automatically deducted by eBay. (Ebay has a list of hundreds of charities that they work with for just such reasons).
Right now, DIANA RIGG is, by her ignorance or the disinterest of her manager or agent, putting money into the pocket of a perverted, sick, twisted, degenerate misogynistic sociopath who is doing THIS:
