Chris Lee Craigslist Scandal? Gawker Reports GOP Congressman Sent Shirtless Pictures To Woman

UPDATE: Congressman Chris Lee resigned shortly after subject matter discussed in the following post came to light.

Questions are swirling Wednesday about whether Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.) actually sent shirtless pictures of himself to a woman he supposedly contacted on the "Women Seeking Men" section of Craigslist.

According to Gawker, the 46-year-old married Republican responded to a listing posted last month by a 34-year-old woman looking for "financially & emotionally secure" men who "don't look like toads."

In an email, sent from an account admittedly registered to Lee, someone reportedly replied, claiming to be a 39-year-old, "6ft 190lbs blond/blue," "divorced" "lobbyist."

After a few flirty back-and-forths, the woman told Gawker that Lee sent her a picture of himself, sans shirt.

Asked for comment, Lee's spokesman provided a denial and claimed that the congressman's email account had been hacked.

"The Congressman is happily married," the spokesman told Gawker. "The only time he or his wife posted something online was to sell old furniture when they changed the apartment they keep in DC."

But Gawker doesn't seem entirely convinced about the alleged hacking or about the scope of Lee's Craigslist use.

That could, theoretically, be true. But the evidence suggests otherwise. The emails were sent more than a week before the alleged hack. The shirtless photo--which, according to metadata contained in the picture, was taken in Washington, D.C.---was taken with a Blackberry, the same mobile device that Lee uses, which means the hacker would have also accessed the photos on Lee's phone.

For the entire correspondence and pictures, click over to Gawker.

Comments

[Brigette]

02:34 AM on 02/11/2011

Am I wrong or is this the "raped isn't really raped" guy?

[Firas Ukab Alyahya]

11:43 PM on 02/10/2011

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/m4w/2208372993.html

[Firas Ukab Alyahya]

11:39 PM on 02/10/2011

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/m4w/2208372993.html
this is funny ad on craigs list lol

[ziger123]

11:04 PM on 02/10/2011

At least he didn't pull a brett favre and send a teenie peenie pic

[ziger123]

11:03 PM on 02/10/2011

At least he had the intelligence to resign.
Sending a topless pic of himself looking for a lay - what a happily married politician he was!

[Skiwee]

05:53 PM on 02/10/2011

Oh, the shame of it!

[himaui]

04:50 PM on 02/10/2011

Apparently having to work those extra days during the lame-duck session got to him.

[Jerrybrice]

01:39 PM on 02/10/2011

http://wp.me/pEzT2-1JR
This behavior could lead to a Congressman being subjected to extortion possibly, and at the least clearly shows a total lack of good judgement, and compromises security.
I am suspicious as to the details surrounding his resignation, and I look forward to the anonymous women he was trying to hook-up with, coming out to the public, just so we can be reassured that she actually exist.Seem like there is more to this story...

[Allyatx]

12:45 PM on 02/10/2011

Show me the photos!!

[Rooster Coburn]

11:02 PM on 02/10/2011

He had his shirt off and his pants on.  Dress pants, not shorts.  They never even met and nothing "happened", obviously.  Poor judgment on his part to be sure, but . . . .

[negotiatethis]

12:00 PM on 02/10/2011

There has to be more to this story.

[simonesays]

10:56 AM on 02/10/2011

I think he's taking his support of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" a bit too literally. "Don't ask if I'm married, so I don't tell you a lie."

So two guys who've loved each other for decades aren't allowed to be married, but he's allowed to risk his wife's health -- subjecting her to a multitude of STDs and cancer -- because he's bound by the sanctity of marriage? So somebody who is struggling to make ends meet can't have his pneumonia treated and covered by the government, but he gets free antibiotics for all of the STIs he's about to contract? So if the condom breaks when he's cheating on his wife, his unknowing mistress has to bear his baby? What a hypocrite. It's awfully easy to dictate how others should live their lives when you're sitting in a position of power. What a dirty, immoral, nasty man.

[MoeB]

10:46 AM on 02/10/2011

Well, if that's him in the pic, and it looks like it, at least he was honest...he is "fit".

[AnotherTry]

09:06 AM on 02/10/2011

I'd do him.

[Wolfsghost]

08:45 AM on 02/10/2011

Isn't he a sweetheart. These guys haven't the slightest idea how technology works. Strike another vote for the Gopers family values team.

[AvgPlumber]

08:35 AM on 02/10/2011

His timing might have been a little off since many of us can agree it's a good bet he might be divorced with one son and working as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. in the not too distant future, right? It seems, "Hell hath no fury, like a woman scorned," some women just place so much emphasis on telling the truth about one's age I guess.