Aniston Sues Over Nude Photos

August 8, 2000 -- Jennifer Aniston happily exposed more than a tan line for a Rolling Stone cover a few years back, but she's not happy with a magazine that published unauthorized photos of the Friends star sunbathing topless.

Today Aniston filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against the publishers of Celebrity Skin magazine. The newly wed Mrs. Brad Pitt claims that a "stalkerazzi" scaled her neighbor's wall in order to snap photos of her "reclining topless in her backyard, wearing only her panties."

The 31-year-old actress is seeking unspecified punitive and compensatory damages from Man's World Publications and Crescent Publishing Group.

According to court documents, Aniston saw the photo of herself in the September issue of Celebrity Skin (maybe she has a subscription?). She had her lawyer send a cease-and-desist letter to the publishers, but they instead ran the photo in another of their magazines, High Society, just one month later.

The two magazines described Aniston as "naked," in the "raw," and "raunchy," and mentioned "her shocking XXX-rated vacation" in Mexico (where she was photographed in a bathing suit by paparazzi). The lawsuit says those descriptions "were and are highly offensive and objectionable to plaintiff, as they would be to any reasonable person of ordinary sensibilities."

Aniston says the images violate her privacy, proven by the fact that the photographer took them from above and behind her.

This isn't the first instance of legal — or stalking — woes for the just-married couple. There is currently a warrant out for the arrest of Pitt's stalker, Athena Marie Rolando, who has not shown up for her last two court hearings.

Rolando sneaked into Pitt's home in January 1999, put on his sweatpants, and fell asleep in his bed. The actor was not home at the time.