Miley Cyrus and her parents, Billy Ray and Trish, won’t press charges against gossip blogger Perez Hilton after he posted an explicit photo of the teen superstar on his website, E! Online reported Thursday.
“She just wants to move on,” a source close to the family told E! Online. “She thinks it’s the work of an idiot and wants to move forward.”
Miley herself reacted to the incident saying “that’s some idiot being an idiot,” when asked about it on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show earlier this week.
Hilton was slammed after he posted a link to an uncensored, up-the-skirt photograph of Miley seemingly without underwear on his website Monday. Advertisers began pulling ads from Hilton’s website due to the scandal, FOXNews.com reported Wednesday.
ABC, which is owned by Miley’s former employer, Disney, was quick to pull ads for “The View” from PerezHilton.com.
The picture has sparked significant controversy as Miley is still a minor.
Hilton had issued a warning to readers not to click for a photo of the 17-year-old singer if they were “easily offended.”
The posting has consequently prompted many to question if the 32-year-old self-titled “Queen of Media” could face charges pertaining to the distribution of child pornography.
FOXNews.com also learned that MTV Networks, which is using Hilton’s site to promote a new program on their channel TVLand, said Tuesday their advertising alliance with Perez “remains unchanged.” However, on Tuesday evening, the TVLand ad was no longer on Hilton’s site.
Santa Monica Criminal Defense Attorney Steve Cron said it is unlikely Hilton would be charged over the incident. For the issue to be taken any further, prosecutors would need to launch an inquest through the local District Attorney or U.S. Attorney’s office, or Miley would have to report it to a police agency.
An insider at the FBI bureau in Los Angeles told FOXNews.com they had received several press inquiries concerning to the incident, but no reports or investigations were underway.
An unapologetic Hilton responded to the controversy with a tongue-in-cheek video post on Tuesday, claiming that while he likes to be “controversial,” he “doesn’t want to go to jail.”
He said Miley was “clearly wearing underwear” and the reason he linked to the photo was not because she was without panties, but because he thought she was exiting the car in a very “un-ladylike manner.”
Hilton then posted another picture of Miley from the same paparazzi set, saying it was proof that she was, in fact, donning appropriate covering.