Brooke Shields Child Porn Could Cost Tate $500k

A photo of Brooke Shields posing nude at age 10 could cost the Tate Modern a cool half a mil if the catalogs printed for its ‘Pop Life’ exhibition can’t be sold. Fearing more protests if they release the catalog with Shield’s preteen pose, museum’s publishing wing is facing the prospect of dumping 12,000 printed copies, according to the Telegraph. In the meantime, the Tate has taken the “temporary measure” of selling the catalog with the offending photo censored with a sticker until legal experts decide what to do, but you can see it in all its pervy glory after the jump. |Telegraph| Read more »

By on October 20, 2009 at 2:58 pm
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Young Brooke Shields Nude Pic Pulled from Tate Modern Exhibit

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A photo of makeup-wearing, oiled up Brooke Shields posing naked from the knees up at 10 years-old has been pulled from an exhibit at the Tate Modern by Scotland Yard for being vaguely child pornographic-y. The photograph, taken by Gary Gross long ago, was to be part of Richard Prince’s Spiritual America display at the Tate Modern’s The Pop Life: Art In A Material World exhibition. Shields mother was reportedly paid $450 by Gross for allowing her daughter to pose nude for a book titled, Sugar and Spice, which was published by Playboy Press. When you really stop and think about it, it’s kind of amazing that Shields didn’t turn out to be one of those crackhead former child stars, isn’t it? |Guardian|

By on October 1, 2009 at 9:43 am
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