Superimposing yourself onto photos of celebrities to make it look like you know them may seem like a harmless, if slightly weird, pastime, but as BBM knows all too well, the police take a very dim view of it.
Admittedly the Photoshopped images we got in trouble over involved Katy Perry, bondage gear and a fully erect horse, but it’s not like we put them on the web or anything – we just used to post them to her address in California along with some “samples” they helped us produce.
But dangerous bestial-erotic fantasies of large-breasted pop singers aside, an LA attorney is in a bit of bother after a state bar investigation discovered she had superimposed herself into numerous celebrity photographs posted on her website’s “publicity” page.
Svitlana Sangary is now in danger of losing her law license due to false advertising.
“This court finds that many, and perhaps all, of these photos were created by taking original celebrity photos and then overlaying respondent’s image in order to make it appear as though (she) was in the presence of that celebrity,” Judge Donald Miles wrote in his opinion.
He said the photos, posted beginning in December 2012, “were part of an advertisement and solicitation for future work … and they were false, deceptive and intended to confuse, deceive and mislead the public.”
Each of the photographs in question shows Sangary posing with political figures or celebrities, including President Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Anne Hathaway. It was the one of her posing at the premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest with Oscar Wilde that gave the game away.

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