Actress Bongkot "Tak" Khongmalai will face defamation action for
accusing a feisty tour agency worker of leaking pictures of her on board
a rental yacht.
Kemmanat "Rose" Eiamprasert, 29, last week laid a defamation complaint with Tung Tong police in Phuket after Tak late last month accused her of leaking the images and, in a slanging match on social media, asked whether she sold her body.
"Is she willing to meet me face to face and repeat her claims?" Rose said in a challenge to the outspoken actress, who earlier laid a complaint of her own with Bangkok police alleging a breach of privacy.
Tak spoke out after pictures of her in a bathing costume striking poses on board the yacht emerged on social media. She said they cast her in a negative light, as she was looking fuller of figure than she would like.
The pictures were taken on board a rental yacht which she and her husband, billionaire Dtac founder Boonchai Bencharongkul, booked for a pleasure cruise in Phuket a couple of months ago.
A friend of her husband's, Charlie, took the pictures, but says he didn't leak them. Tak said they were taken as a keepsake, and she never thought they would be released publicly.
When the images first emerged, Tak mistakenly assumed a member of the crew took them.
She blasted the hire company for breaching her privacy, and sent a lawyer to Phahon Yothin police to lay a complaint.
Rose, on behalf of the company, denied the claims. The pair exchanged barbs on social media, which failed to let up even when Charlie, Boonchai’s friend, came forward to admit it was actually him who took the pictures, not the crew.
Charlie said he asked Rose for her number, who said she would consent if he agreed to give her the images of Tak.
When she found out, Tak accused Rose of selling her body.
The row culminated with Rose, who like Charlie was present on the yacht, last week laying her complaint with police.
She denied swapping her number for the pictures, saying she gave out her number in Phuket to anyone connected with the cruise that day, so there was no need to bargain for it.
"The leaks didn’t come from me. I asked Charlie for one image for promotional purposes, and it wasn’t the one of her raising her arms and legs," Rose said of the images which emerged of Tak at the head of the yacht.
"I never exchanged numbers with Charlie, and haven’t spoken to him since.
"I don’t ask for customers’ pictures on the sly, as I have my ethics. I asked for a picture of the couple to add to the company’s internet profile. It’s not an ugly one. I thought that, as Charlie is a close friend of her husband, it probably passed their scrutiny first."
The images which upset Tak, of her raising her arms and legs, appeared on social media well before Tak caught wind of the leak.
"I have evidence that Charlie didn’t give the pictures to me alone, but I don’t want to get into that," Rose said.
"I want an apology, but it looks as if it’s almost too late now, as we have laid a criminal complaint."
She had yet to hear from Bangkok police about Tak’s breach of privacy case.
She would like Tak to erase her claims on social media, and said she wasn’t afraid of taking on the wife of a billionaire.
Police are investigating. -
2. Model 'tried to have boyfriend assaulted'
Kemmanat "Rose" Eiamprasert, 29, last week laid a defamation complaint with Tung Tong police in Phuket after Tak late last month accused her of leaking the images and, in a slanging match on social media, asked whether she sold her body.
"Is she willing to meet me face to face and repeat her claims?" Rose said in a challenge to the outspoken actress, who earlier laid a complaint of her own with Bangkok police alleging a breach of privacy.
Tak spoke out after pictures of her in a bathing costume striking poses on board the yacht emerged on social media. She said they cast her in a negative light, as she was looking fuller of figure than she would like.
The pictures were taken on board a rental yacht which she and her husband, billionaire Dtac founder Boonchai Bencharongkul, booked for a pleasure cruise in Phuket a couple of months ago.
A friend of her husband's, Charlie, took the pictures, but says he didn't leak them. Tak said they were taken as a keepsake, and she never thought they would be released publicly.
When the images first emerged, Tak mistakenly assumed a member of the crew took them.
She blasted the hire company for breaching her privacy, and sent a lawyer to Phahon Yothin police to lay a complaint.
Rose, on behalf of the company, denied the claims. The pair exchanged barbs on social media, which failed to let up even when Charlie, Boonchai’s friend, came forward to admit it was actually him who took the pictures, not the crew.
Charlie said he asked Rose for her number, who said she would consent if he agreed to give her the images of Tak.
When she found out, Tak accused Rose of selling her body.
The row culminated with Rose, who like Charlie was present on the yacht, last week laying her complaint with police.
She denied swapping her number for the pictures, saying she gave out her number in Phuket to anyone connected with the cruise that day, so there was no need to bargain for it.
"The leaks didn’t come from me. I asked Charlie for one image for promotional purposes, and it wasn’t the one of her raising her arms and legs," Rose said of the images which emerged of Tak at the head of the yacht.
"I never exchanged numbers with Charlie, and haven’t spoken to him since.
"I don’t ask for customers’ pictures on the sly, as I have my ethics. I asked for a picture of the couple to add to the company’s internet profile. It’s not an ugly one. I thought that, as Charlie is a close friend of her husband, it probably passed their scrutiny first."
The images which upset Tak, of her raising her arms and legs, appeared on social media well before Tak caught wind of the leak.
"I have evidence that Charlie didn’t give the pictures to me alone, but I don’t want to get into that," Rose said.
"I want an apology, but it looks as if it’s almost too late now, as we have laid a criminal complaint."
She had yet to hear from Bangkok police about Tak’s breach of privacy case.
She would like Tak to erase her claims on social media, and said she wasn’t afraid of taking on the wife of a billionaire.
Police are investigating. -
2. Model 'tried to have boyfriend assaulted'
Model Amonwan "Amie" Sirikittirat, already accused of hiding her children from the public, is under attack on a new front after a former girlfriend of her Taiwanese lover came forward to add fuel to the flames.
Amie took her two young children before the media late last month to counter claims by outspoken model and actress Irin "Pel" Srikaew, who accused her of hiding them from her public admirers.
In a social media post which did not mention Amie by name, Pel also said Amie dumped the children in Bangkok with their taxi-driver father a few years ago as she headed overseas to make R-rated erotic movies.
Amie, she said, was a jilted former fan who once followed her career obsessively, even going as far as getting copies made of dresses she had worn to functions.
Denying the claims, Amie insisted she was a proud mum, and the children accompany her everywhere.
The children, born by different fathers, were conceived with love rather than lust or carelessness. She admits she now may have a third one on the way.
Her boyfriend, tearaway Taiwanese model Howard Wang, had asked her to go for pregnancy tests, as he was looking forward to being a dad, she said.
Former boy band star Howard, who moved to Thailand as a child, was deported a couple of years ago on drugs and assault offences.
Fresh from countering Pel’s claims that she was hiding her kids, Amie last week came under attack on another front, as Howard’s former girlfriend, model Pilawan "Muay" Ahreerob, claimed that Amie once tried to have Howard assaulted.
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Amie, she said, proposed hiring a heavy to beat him up. "Not only that, she wanted to hire a woman with Aids to have sex with Howard," she said.
Muay has bad blood with Howard, after he took her for an abortion in Bangkok in January 2012, but when the reports came to light, disavowed any knowledge of it. The previous September, she laid an assault complaint against him, which she dropped after he begged her forgiveness.
"I don’t want him back. If his behaviour is anything like it was, I would rather urinate on him," she wrote on social media.
Rubbing salt in the wound, Pel told reporters last week that, far from being upset by claims she was hiding her children, Amie told her dress designer she was actually delighted with the publicity.
"My kids are now famous and are being hired as product presenters. They can help their others make a living," she is said to have told dress designer Narongwit "Pong" Thongneht.
Asked about the fuss, Amie said she was exhausted keeping it up with it all. She denied she tried to have Howard assaulted, and said her boyfriend was happy to back up her claims.
Prostrating herself before reporters, she asked her critics to give her a break.
"Please give me a place in which I can stand in society," she said in tears. -
2. Doctored images enrage Lydia
Actress and singer Saranrat "Lydia" Wisutthithada is shrugging off
doctored images of herself exercising in which her private parts are
given special emphasis, saying the culprit must be mad to spend so much
energy on such a pursuit.
"Who would go to the bother? He must have a great deal of time on his hands," she said on Friday.
Lydia had posted a clip of her working out with her trainer. She is wearing a tight-fitting two-piece outfit, and captions appeared on the bottom of the screen which obscured her private parts. "Train like a beast … look like a beauty," she says of herself.
The culprit, who Lydia assumes is a crazed fan, has taken stills from the clip and released them. He has also digitally removed the captions, and enhanced the size of her private parts.
Lydia said the images were upsetting, but she has better things to do than pursue legal action.
"I won’t change my exercise outfit either, as it’s pretty ordinary. I don’t work out in a bikini," she said.
"He probably did it for a laugh, though when I saw it I didn’t think it was funny. I admire his skills, but I suggest he puts his time into something more creative."
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