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Lawyers acting for Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Cara Delevingne and other female stars whose private images were hacked have threatened to sue Google for $100 million.
A number of female celebrities - including Kim Kardashian West, Kate Upton, Amber Heard and Selena Gomez - have had their iCloud accounts targetted and had intimate photos shared on websites Reddit and 4Chan but legal representatives for over a dozen of the women has slammed the online giant for allegedly for allegedly failing to remove the images and "making millions from the victimisation of women."
Lawyer Marty Singer has written a sternly-worded letter to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as Eric Schmidt and Google lawyers accusing them of "blatantly unethical behaviour".
According to the New York Post's Page Six column, the document goes on to claim Google has failed "to act expeditiously, and responsibly to remove the images, but in knowingly accommodating, facilitating, and perpetuating the unlawful conduct."
It added: "Google is making millions and profiting from the victimisation of women."
The lawyer pointed out his firm sent a notice to remove the images four weeks ago, and several more since, but many of the photos are still on BlogSpot and YouTube, which are both owned by Google.
He added: "Google knows the images are hacked stolen property, private and confidential photos and videos unlawfully obtained and posted by pervert predators who are violating the victims' privacy rights ... Yet Google has taken little or no action to stop these outrageous violations.
"Because the victims are celebrities with valuable publicity rights you do nothing -- nothing but collect millions of dollars in advertising revenue ... as you seek to capitalise on this scandal rather than quash it."

Lena Dunham stopped drinking and going to parties after she was raped.
The 'Girls' creator was sexually attacked while studying at Oberlin college in Ohio and admits the aftermath saw her "remove herself from the social world" in a bid to stay safe.
She said: "he emotional trauma she suffered from the incident deeply affected her emotionally and dramatically altered her remaining college years. "I didn't really go to anymore parties. I basically didn't have a drink for the rest of college... I really removed myself from that world.
"I don't know if I would've told you at the time, 'Oh, I'm doing this to keep myself safe,' but obviously in hindsight... I basically removed myself from the social world as I'd known it."
The 28-year-old star - who is in a relationship with Fun. musician Jack Antonoff - struggled to speak openly about what had happened to her, using the "lens of humour" to play down her ordeal.
She told NPR's Terry Gross: "It was a painful experience physically and emotionally, and one I spent a long time trying to reconcile.
"At the time that it happened, it wasn't something that I was able to be honest about. I was able to share pieces, but I sort of used the lens of humour, which has always been my default mode, to try to talk around it."
And Lena admits sharing her story with her best friend, who bluntly told her she had been raped, helped "lift" her and get over the shocking attack.
She said: "When I shared it with my best friend and she used the term 'you were raped' at the time, I sort of laughed at her and thought like, you know, what an ambulance-chasing drama queen.
"[I] later felt this incredible gratitude for her for giving me that, giving me that gift of that kind of certainty that she had. I think that a lot of times when I felt at my lowest about it, those words in some way actually lifted me up because I felt that somebody was justifying the pain of my experience."

Kelly Brook has snubbed her ex-fiancé David McIntosh in her autobiography.
The glamorous model has omitted any mention of her former beau from her new book, 'Close Up', despite rumours that her publishers are pressuring her to write an extra chapter all about their messy break up last month.
According to The Sun newspaper, a source said: "Publishers would love her to write a few more chapters about how her engagement to David ended. But Kelly didn't even mention David in the book while they were together and after the way it ended she doesn't want to have that in black and white.
"It's a pretty big insult if he doesn't make the cut. It's almost like she's erasing him from her life and it will be the final sign that he is irrelevant to her now."
Kelly shocked her fans when she announced their split on September 26, via the social networking site Twitter. At the time she wrote: "It's a sad Day but I wanted to share with you that David and I are no longer engaged. I love and respect him and wish him all the best. (sic)"
Their break up came after David was accused of cheating on the lingerie designer with his friend, Sarah Harper. The former 'Gladiators' star has since denied these claims.
Two days after his ex-girlfriend announced their separation, he tweeted: "There are two sides to every story. You are free to believe what you wish...it doesn't alter the facts. (sic)"

Jessie J has blamed social media for killing romance.
The 'Bang Bang' hitmaker - who largely keeps her private life out of the spotlight - believes that if websites like Facebook and Twitter were shut down, more couples would get married.
She told Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine: "I think with Instagram and Twitter, romance has lost its way. It's all, 'Oh, I've got this girl but I could have another one and I can contact her directly right this minute.'
"If we lost technology for a year more people would get married."
Meanwhile, the 26-year-old singer has revealed that if her partner loved joining in with her celebrity lifestyle, she'd give him the boot.
She previously said: "Nobody that I'm with wants to be famous or be on a red carpet and if they do, then I don't want to be with them! I want you to have your own life and not be with me because of that."
Jessie has also admitted that she works hard to keep her private life from the public and is desperate for her friends to treat her as if she's not famous.
She said: "I think I've just come to terms with the way my life has changed. There are people that are always going to think that I've changed but I know I haven't.
"I've got the same people around me, the same best mates, and I'm not one of those people that hop to a different best friend every five minutes."

Ashley Roberts loves playing "dress-up".
The 33-year-old singer - who shot to fame as part of the all girl pop and dance ensemble, The Pussycat Dolls, in 2003 - has confessed the best thing about her career in showbiz is getting to dress up in "sassy" costumes for shoots and on stage.
She told FHM magazine: "I just love that I get to play dress-up for a living. It's kind of awesome, isn't it?
"Growing up dancing and knowing how to move my body - I enjoy that and I like that I can express that. I've been dancing and wearing costumes my whole life, so there's that sexiness to who I am that I enjoy.
"There's a part of me that always has the little bit of the sassy, sexiness in her. That's probably why I ended up with The Pussycat Dolls in the first place."
The blonde beauty - who also appeared on the jungle reality TV series 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here' in 2012 - was recently forced to deny rumours she had grown close to the show's married host Declan Donnelly.
The 'Don't Cha' hitmaker shrugged off reports that she had gotten close the 39-year-old presenter and insists she isn't a "homewrecker".
She explained: "I have never snogged Dec. We're friends.
"It's funny because he's been in a relationship for a while now but people still ask. I'm like, 'I'm not a homewrecker!'"

Selena Gomez is "learning the hard way".
The 22-year-old actress took to Twitter yesterday (01.10.14), posting two cryptic messages, claiming she didn't feel "good enough" and was turning to god, just days after her on-off boyfriend Justin Bieber was spotted enjoying a boozy lunch date with her model pal Kendall Jenner while the trio attended Paris Fashion Week.
The brunette beauty is also believed to have deleted Justin - with whom she recently enjoyed a luxurious break to the Caribbean island of St Martin - off her Instagram account and has started following a pair of hunky models instead.
She wrote on the social media site: "Sometimes we think we aren't good enough. But then I realize when I think I'm alone I have God."
"We have to learn the hard way sometimes."
Although it isn't known whether her tweets are directly related to Justin's date with Kendall, Selena - who is thought to have flown back to the US alone - previously had a bust-up with Kendall and her younger sister Kylie Jenner, 17, after they attended the Coachella Valley Music Festival in California, when she found text messages from Kylie on Justin's phone.
However, Selena reportedly ended her feud with the 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' stars in April after realising she "overreacted."
A source said at the time: "Selena has no issues with the Jenner girls. They had an issue but they have cleared it up. She has always liked the Jenner girls. They had been fans of Selena since they were young."
Meanwhile, Justin, 20, was seemingly enjoying his time in the French capital.
Following his lunch with Kendall, 18, he wrote on Twitter: "I love Paris."

Giuliana and Bill Rancic still hope to have a second child.
The couple, whose two-year-old son Duke was born via a surrogate mother in 2012 because the reality TV star can't get pregnant due to medication she is still taking following her successful battle with breast cancer in 2011, were left devastated when their gestational carrier Delphine miscarried their unborn baby at nine weeks in June and subsequently halted their plans to expand their family.
But the 40-year-old star told E! News they haven't given up hope, adding: "You know we're still trying to figure it out, we definitely took a little break there and just trying to see when is a good time to try for baby number two.
"We definitely want to have another child if we're so lucky. I don't know, we're coming back around to thinking about it again, kind of talking about it, which we hadn't been doing in a few months. Hopefully, it will happen sooner rather than later but we would love to have another child and have a sibling for Duke."
She added: "We've been so lucky with Duke, if we could have another child that would be incredible and a real blessing."

Leonardo DiCaprio refuses to have a joint 40th birthday party with Kate Winslet.
The 'Divergent' star - who will celebrate the milestone in October 2015 - has been close friends with the actor for almost 20 years and he even walked her down the aisle during her secret wedding to Ned Rocknroll in 2012, but she admits he likes to be the centre of attention so will host his own bash when he turns 40 next month.
She told the November issue of Marie Claire magazine: "He's 40 this year and I'm 40 next - that's weird. Isn't that weird?
"He wouldn't have a joint party with me, he really wouldn't. Definitely not. He likes to have his moments... but also I don't think I'd want to have a joint party with him, more to the b**ody point!"
But Kate insists they are still best friends and formed a close bond because they "needed each other" when they first found fame after co-starring in 'Titanic' in 1997.
She said: "I think the reason that friendship works is because there was never any romantic thing.
"He always saw me as one of the boys; I've never really been a girly-girl.
"We needed each other to lean on because we were very young and working all kinds of crazy bl**dy hours and it was a shock to the system."

Jordin Sparks plans to return her BMW to Jason Derulo.
The 'No Air' singer, who split from the 'Talk Dirty' hitmaker last month, has decided to give him back the luxurious vehicle that he bought for her last Christmas.
Asked whether she plans to return the car, the 24-year-old singer said: "I haven't really had time to think about it, but yeah, I probably will."
She added: "He can have it."
Jordin was overjoyed when Jason, 25, surprised her with the champagne-coloured sedan in December and shared a picture of it on Instagram at the time, with the caption: "I still can't believe it! He surprised me on Christmas but I wanted to make sure I wasn't dreaming before I posted it! ha! Thank you so much @jasonderulo! I love you baby! Omg omg omg (sic)."
Jason recently revealed he ended their three-year relationship over the intense pressure to get married, but Jordin thinks they were partially to blame for the engagement rumours as she participated in his 'Marry Me' music video.
She told 'The Wendy Williams Show' on Wednesday (01.10.14): "Hey, listen, we set ourselves up for that."
The former 'American Idol' beauty is excited to start dating again and is having fun after moving to Los Angeles.
She said: "I'm good, really. I'm exploring my neighbourhood. I'm finding places I [where] like to eat [and] meeting new people. It's been really great."