Notting Hill actress Mischa Barton’s sex tape sold as an act of revenge porn

Mischa Barton becomes a victim of revenge pornography

By Upasana Mantri

Updated on Mar 16, 2017 | 05:42 PM IST | 7.8M

Clearly, 2017 hasn’t been a good year for Notting Hill actor Mischa Barton. In January, The O.C actress was hospitalized on her birthday night after someone spiked her drinks. Last month, the 31-year-old was filmed behaving bizarrely in her back garden, hanging over the fence while claiming her mother is a witch and threatening to kill herself. Thereafter, she reportedly crashed a U-Haul truck into a West Hollywood apartment building.

And now, Mischa Barton has found herself in the midst of a sex tape controversy. That’s right! The actor has hired a lawyer due to reports of an alleged sex tape of her being shopped to porn companies. Well, as crazy as this sounds but its true and Barton’s lawyer, Lisa Bloom, has issued a statement via Twitter which reads, “I am very proud to represent actress Mischa Barton, who is courageously standing up for her rights. It has been reported that naked or sexually explicit images of Ms. Barton are being ‘shopped around’. Ms. Barton does not consent to any disclosure of any such images. She believes that she was recorded without her consent by someone she was seeing at the time.”

Mischa Barton is the victim of revenge pornography and validating the same, Mischa’s attorney said, “There’s a name for this disgusting conduct: revenge pornography. Revenge pornography is a form of sexual assault, and it is also a crime and a civil wrong in California. And we will not stand for it,” adding, “I have a message for anyone who attempts to traffic in these photos or videos of Ms. Barton: we will find you, and we will come after you. We will fully prosecute you under every available criminal and civil law. You proceed at your peril.”