Lawyers for Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., have sent a cease-and-desist letter to The Daily Mail over claims that leaked topless photos of the liberal lawmaker showcase, among other things, a “Nazi-era tattoo.”

Hill’s representatives are threatening to sue after the newspaper shared a series of photographs Thursday that appears to show Hill engaging in various controversial acts.

The Horn News reported earlier this week that previously leaked pictures show the 32-year-old Democrat — called one of the “most powerful freshman” lawmaker in Congress by The Los Angeles Times earlier this year — was involved in a “throuple” (a polyamorous threeway couple) relationship with a young female campaign staffer and her now-estranged husband.

Hill admitted to having a sexual relationship with her employee and apologized to her constituents over the matter in a statement Thursday.

“I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment,” Hill said. “For that, I apologize. I wish nothing but the best for her and hope everyone respects her privacy in this difficult time.”

Hill has promised to work with the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into her behavior.

However, the inappropriate sexual relationship with her younger staffer was just the beginning, The Daily Mail claimed later that day.

And Hill’s legal team immediately demanded The Daily Mail erase their report.

Included in the article was a number of controversial claims.

Her estranged husband claims there are also nude photos of Hill the couple shared online “under a thread called ‘WouldYouF**kMyWife.’”

And the newspaper shared a photo that appears to show Hill, naked, using a glass bong (commonly used to smoke marijuana) and sporting an Iron Cross tattoo on her pelvis.

The Daily Mail called the tattoo “Nazi-era imagery” which Hill has denied.

According to the Anti-Defamation League: “The Iron Cross is a famous German military medal dating back to the 19th century. During the 1930s, the Nazi regime in Germany superimposed a swastika on the traditional medal, turning it into a Nazi symbol. After World War II, the medal was discontinued but neo-Nazis and other white supremacists subsequently adopted it as a hate symbol and it has been a commonly-used hate symbol ever since.”

The anti-hate group cautions that while the symbol is used heavily among neo-Nazi and White Supremacist groups, it is also used by motorcyclists and skateboarders not associated with Nazism.

Hill’s legal team has denied the implication that the tattoo is inappropriate.

The Democratic lawmaker’s legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter to the U.K.-based publication, demanding they remove the image.

“The claim that Representative Hill has Nazi imagery on her body in the form of a tattoo is false and defamatory,” Hill’s lawyers wrote. “We demand that you immediately cease and desist the publication of these abusive and spurious images. The continued publication by your outlet or others of these images will warrant legal response.”

The tattoo controversy is the latest in a string of leaks involving Hill’s intimate personal life over the past week.

According to reports, her inappropriate relationship with a younger campaign staffer isn’t the only ethics complaint against Hill being investigated into by the House Ethics Committee.

Hill was also accused by her husband of being in a sexual relationship with her campaign finance director for a year. In a since-deleted Facebook message, her estranged husband claimed Hill had been “sleeping with her [male] finance director [Graham Kelly] for the past year at least.”

The California lawmaker has denied her husband’s claims.

“Allegations that I have been involved in a relationship with Mr. Kelly are absolutely false,” she said Thursday. “I am saddened that the deeply personal matter of my divorce has been brought into public view and the vindictive claims of my ex have now involved the lives and reputations of unrelated parties.”

 

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