Former Rep. Katie Hill and her former husband have settled the revenge porn case she filed against him and several media organizations over the unauthorized distribution of intimate photos.
Hill sued her ex-spouse, Kenneth Heslep, and the news groups, in Los Angeles Superior Court in December 2020, alleging nude photos of her were published without her permission. Heslep was the only remaining defendant and Hill’s lawyers filed court papers on Wednesday, Dec. 27, with Judge Kerry Bensinger stating that an accord was reached, but no terms were divulged.
On June 21, Judge Serena R. Murillo put a stay on the case in light of Hill’s bankruptcy filing a year earlier. The media defendants were previously dismissed on free-speech grounds, and Hill was subsequently assessed thousands of dollars in attorneys’ fees. Hill submitted a lengthy sworn declaration in opposition to one of the media defendants’ dismissal motion.
“My nude body is not a matter of public interest,” Hill said. “Moreover, even if my alleged relationship was a matter of public interest, that does not justify the illegal worldwide dissemination of my nude image. I was humiliated and traumatized by the circulation of the nude image.”
Hill alleged in her court papers that she lived in fear that if she left Heslep, he would kill them both as well as their animals. She “suffered extreme emotional distress, attempted suicide and was forced to quit her job, which in this case was the representative of California’s 25th Congressional District, one of the most difficult-to-get jobs in the universe,” her court papers stated. Hill, now 36, and Heslep officially divorced in October 2020.
Hill, a Democrat, resigned in 2019 after the nude photos were published and news emerged that she had a three-way relationship with her husband and a campaign staffer. She was also accused of having an affair with a member of her congressional staff. Hill publicly blamed her then-husband for the release of the photos. Speaking in Congress in 2019, she decried a “misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse, this time with the entire country watching.”
The 25th Congressional District includes portions of the Antelope Valley. The seat had long been held by Republicans until Hill’s 2018 victory over then-Rep. Steve Knight of Palmdale. The seat is now held by Republican Mike Garcia.
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Revenge says
Trashy people.
All Tingly... says
Ben Sporten-Wood says
You're Useless says
You contribute nothing. You’re as useless as nipples on a nun.
Tim Scott says
I’d like to have seen criminal charges filed against the ex. That would give him incentive to rat out the people who paid him to end her career so they could get their pawn Garcia elected. -cough- Wrecks -cough-
Fixed it for you. says
Pretty far fethched conspiricy therou dim. Maybe the ex hubby was getting tired of the idea that he was sharing his wife with the entire democratic party. Your revenge plot is thin dude. Cough cough
Tim Scott says
LOL…sure man, because the AV Republican Club has never demonstrated that they are capable of unethical behavior to secure an outcome.
Fredsie says
You could be right. The problem is, we’ll never know.
Tim Scott says
Well, we’ll never prove. That’s why I said it would have been good to get some criminal charges. As it stands the powers behind him can just help him cover his losses in the lawsuit and they get off scot free.
Ledesma 99 says
Oh, come on liberal! Aren’t you due on some picket line to support Gay Nation somewhere?
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Chi chis and bong says
Have another bongrip…
Then be gone Thot!
ACE CARTER says
UGLY –
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