The septuagenarian secretly snapped by a Playboy Playmate at the gym has reportedly come forward to Los Angeles police and wants the model to atone for her body-shaming blunder.
Dani Mathers, who mocked the naked woman in a July Snapchat photo that wound up going public, could now face up to six months’ jail time on a misdemeanor dissemination of private images charge, TMZ reported Monday.
The model’s lawyer Tom Mesereau, who famously won Michael Jackson’s acquittal in his 2005 child molestation case, told the Daily News he hoped “the rumor is not correct.”
“Dani Mathers never tried to hurt anyone at any time, and certainly never tried to break any law,” Mesereau said.
Mathers, 29, drew heat earlier this summer after she “accidentally” shared the photo of a woman showering at L.A. Fitness coupled with a picture of her own.
“If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either,” the svelte blonde captioned her spiteful snap.
Blanketed by a world of disapproval, Playboy’s 2015 Playmate of the Year deleted the image, claimed she’d meant to send it privately to a friend and apologized for her actions.
“There is no excuse,” she wrote on Twitter. “I understand fully the magnitude of this post that I have hurt a lot of people, women. Body shaming is not okay…and not something to joke about.”
Regardless, L.A. Fitness slapped Mathers with a lifetime ban from its facilities, and radio station KLOS 95.5 suspended her from her regular gig on the “Heidi and Frank” show, TMZ reported at the time.
The Los Angeles Police Department opened a criminal investigation into Mathers’ alleged misdeeds, asking the woman in the photo to identify herself and aid in the proceedings.