Celeb Jihad is a website known for sharing leaked private (often sexual) videos and photos as well as faked ones of celebrities as a form of jihad satire.[1][2][3][4][5] The Daily Beast describes it as a "satirical celebrity gossip website."[3]
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Type of site | Pornography, celebrity gossip, satire, leaks |
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| Available in | English, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Bulgarian, Russian, Turkish, German, Chinese, Macedonian |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Revenue | Advertisements |
| URL | www |
| Registration | none |
| Launched | 18 March 2008 |
| Current status | Online |
The website describes itself as "a satirical website containing published rumors, speculation, assumptions, opinions, fiction as well as factual information".[6] The site lists its owner as "Durka Durka Mohammad" a fictitious terrorist whose goal is "destroying the poisonous celebrity culture" of America.[7]
The website has participated in a series of releases of images and video, generally believed to have been stolen from hacked cell phones, dubbed "Fappening 2.0".
In August 2017 it released nude pictures of Lindsey Vonn, Tiger Woods, Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, and Katharine McPhee. The image of Woods and Vonn, posted August 21, was suppressed in apparent reaction to legal threats on August 23; images of Carly Booth were deleted August 23 or 24.[8]
In November 2017 Celeb Jihad released naked images of WWE divas Saraya Bevis, JoJo Offerman, and Maria Kanellis, the latest in a long series of similar leaks of WWE celebrity images.[9][10] The website has also released fake nude photos and videos of celebrities, including doctored photos and videos of Meghan Markle, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Megan Fox and Kate Upton. In January 2024, Taylor Swift stated that she would be considering legal action against the owners of the website after AI generated photos and videos of her performing sexual acts while wearing attire related to the Kansas City Chiefs were posted on the site as well as other social media platforms such as X.[11]
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References
edit- ^ Husain, Taneem. "Can Islam Be Satirized? Celeb Jihad's "Explosive Celebrity Gossip" and the Divide between Islam and Mainstream American Culture." American Studies, vol. 56 no. 3, 2018, pp. 69-82. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/ams.2018.0003
- ^ Diana Falzone (August 24, 2017). "How does Celeb Jihad continue to share hacked celebrity nude pics?". Fox News. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ a b Stern, Marlow (24 August 2017). "Inside the Fake-Islamic Site Posting Hacked Nude Photos of A-List Celebrities". Daily Beast Newsweek. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ Suman Varandani (March 6, 2017). "Fappening 2.0 Nude Photo Leak Update: Celeb Jihad Reacts To Amanda Seyfried's Legal Threat". International Business Times. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ "Emma Watson's legal team gets website Celeb Jihad to take down her racy photos". New York Daily News. September 20, 2016. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ "Disclaimer". Celeb Jihad. Archived from the original on September 4, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
- ^ "About". Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
- ^ "Paige Spiranac, Carly Booth leaked nude photos published to, removed from Celeb Jihad". Golf News Net. 2017-08-24. Archived from the original on 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- ^ Carolina (November 6, 2017). "Hackers Leak Nude Photos of WWE Diva Maria Kanellis AGAIN". HackRead. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
- ^ Carolina (November 5, 2017). "Hackers leak WhatsApp chat and fappening photos". HackRead. Archived from the original on January 13, 2024. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
- ^ Smith, Ryan (2024-01-27). "The violation of Taylor Swift". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-07-10.