The Cindy Crawford Reveal That Wasn't

Collective social media cheer undone by theft and fakery.

Photographer John Russo today works and plays a long way from Ventnor, N.J. But as far as that famous “leaked” photo of Cindy Crawford from a 2013 December Marie Claire cover shoot is concerned, he wants everybody to know that it merits a good old-fashioned home state “fuggedaboutit.” The photo, Russo says, was stolen and digitally altered.

We really hope TMZ follows up its report about Russo’s cease-and-desist letter with an interview of the person(s) who engineered this upside-down Photoshop fakery.

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