criminal-law
Defamation/Revenge porn
<p>If my ex-intimate partner decides to send our intimate/couple pictures does that count as defamation act?</p>

<p>If he does something like that, my relationship between me and my current boyfriend will end. </p>

<p>Me and my current boyfriend have been in relationship for 2 years. I heavily regret what i did. I only saw this person for 3 months in summer break, but after 6-7 months he is threatening me to leak my pictures to my current boyfriend because he found out I have a boyfriend. Between those 6-7 months he was in relationship with another women too. I had never told my intimate partner about my boyfriend but whether I tell him or not it is my decision right?</p>

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  <p>If my ex-intimate partner decides to send our intimate/couple pictures does that count as defamation act?</p>
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<p>No. It would be defamatory only if the pictures were false, forged, or to give a false impression that at some point you two got intimate. That being said, your ex-partner's conduct sounds in one or more torts and crimes unless your acts are tantamount to inviting him or challenging him to move forward.</p>

<p>If your ex-partner's conduct prompts your boyfriend to end the relation, most likely you would have a viable claim of <em>tortious interference with relation</em>, although it is unclear what award would remedy the situation. Your ex-partner would need to prove that his interference was <em>justified</em>. Your description nowhere reflects that he might have a valid reason to divulge the pictures.</p>

<p>The ex-partner might be incurring <em>harassment</em> as well, although that depends on the recent interactions between you and him, who resumed contact, and so forth. Likewise, if the ex-partner is trying to force you to do something and is using the pictures to that effect, he would incur extortion.</p>

<p>You might want to consider requesting a <em>restraining order</em> against your ex-partner, especially if that pattern of conduct persists.</p>

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  <p>I had never told my intimate partner about my boyfriend but whether I tell him or not it is my decision right?</p>
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<p>That is mostly a personal decision.</p>

<p>Only in special scenarios (such as contagion of some STD) that are traceable to your ex-partner, your boyfriend might have a claim against you if your boyfriend proves that your failure to make the appropriate disclosure constitutes <em>gross negligence</em> that caused him damages. The questions would be (1) whether timely disclosure would have prompted your boyfriend to take precautions, and (2) whether his reliance on you[r silence] was reasonable. However, that is applicable to all relations and not just to the stressful situation you describe.</p>
