Legal Opinion
MESSENGER BY MESSENGER v. Gruner+ Jahr USA Pub.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 13, 1998No. 97 Civ. 0136(LAK)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Jamie Messenger is a Florida teenager and aspiring fashion model who posed for photographs for use in one of defendant’s magazines, YM, Young and Modem. The photographs were used to illustrate a love and sexual advice column that is a regular feature of the magazine. The column in question contained what was presented as a letter from a teenager, identified only as “Mortified,” which sought adyice in consequence of her having had sex with three boys and then having been ostracized by her peers. The purported letter was followed by the editor’s advice…
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