Yesterday paparazzi agency X17 posted pictures on their site of boxing great Oscar De La Hoya wearing pink panties, a fishnet body stocking, heels and a wig. There were a series of five photos with De La Hoya in suggestive poses, including one with his hands on the wall and legs spread and another of him laying on the side of a tub spread-eagle.

If you look at the pictures with a critical eye, they seem Photoshopped, with his head appearing too big for his body in some of the shots. He’s a fit guy, and might get the bobble head look from some angles, but I’m calling fake on the pics.

X17 is standing by the authenticity of the pictures and refuses to take them down, even after De La Hoya’s lawyer sent them a harshly-worded cease and desist.

De La Hoya’s rep says they’re fake:

“They’re completely manufactured,” Tiernan tells Radar. “The pictures have been manipulated or manufactured, and the matter has been referred to his attorney.” Tiernan says De La Hoya’s attorney had spoken with the fighter, who said as much.
Calls to Stephen Espinoza, the attorney, were not immediately returned.

[From Radar Online]

De La Hoya’s lawyer also says they’re fake and sent a harshly-worded letter to X17 demanding they be removed:

Oscar De La Hoya’s attorney, Bertram Fields, tells Usmagazine.com that pictures of the boxer circulating the internet today are doctored. In a statement, he says, “The photographs depicting Mr. De La Hoya’s image that were posted online today by an obscure paparazzi website are fake. Many of the website’s viewers (as reflected in postings on the site) identified the photos as a ‘really bad photoshop job.’ Unfortunately, with today’s technology, anyone can make any photo seem like something other than it is…”

Fields tells Us that De La Hoya, through his lawyers, is demanding that the images be taken down. The official letter to x17, obtained by Us, reads, “We are aware that you have posted on your website X-17 Online.com today certain photographs which you purport depict Mr. De La Hoya…the images are not newsworthy…As you know, Mr. De La Hoya has never consented to your use of his image for any purpose. Accordingly, demand is made that you immediately take down these images, withdraw them from your website, and make no further use of them.”

[From US Weekly]

X17 was quick to point out that the cease and desist didn’t deny that the photos were real, even though multiple statements from De La Hoya’s camp said they were fake.

Meanwhile Radar Online offers some insight as to why anyone would decide to Photoshop De La Hoya’s face on a tranny – he had a friendly bet with Sugar Ray Leonard that boxers he represented would beat boxers that Sugar Ray represented in Vegas fights last week. The loser would have to dress up as a “ring card girl” for the fight.

Unfortunately the match they were betting on was called off due to an infection on one of the boxer’s hands. So De La Hoya narrowly missed wearing a bikini in the ring, and someone got the idea to dress him up as a woman. He does look cute in fishnets. He shouldn’t be ashamed.

Update: The NY Daily News just published a story that proports to provide the background for these pics. De La Hoya has been married for six years and has a 21 month-old son, but there’s a stripper who claims he’s into all sorts of kinky stuff and that she took the pictures in May:

The photos are being peddled by a Scores West dancer, according to R. Couri Hay, the Gotham magazine columnist who scored the first interview with the twentysomething woman.

“She says she took the photos at the Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia on May 17,” Hay tells us. “I fully believe she is telling the truth. She had been reluctant to talk. But now that she’s being called a liar, she’s ready to sell her story. And, believe me, she has a lot of details.”

A friend of the unnamed woman says that De La Hoya would regularly invite her and other party pals to join him when he left his family at home in Puerto Rico. “He’d send a private plane or fly them first-class,” says the friend. “They’d meet up in hotels, where the party could go on for days. There was a lot of tequila. It involved men and women. They indulged his every whim and taste.

“He wore size 9 ladies shoes. He also liked wearing thigh-high nylons. He liked sex games. He and the girl would sit in a chair that they’d pretend was a motorcycle. He’d pretend he was the girl on the back of motorcycle. She’d be the guy. He’d grab her around the waist and squeal, ‘Faster! Faster!'”

Caplan called the claims “absurd” and accused the woman of being “out for money.”

De La Hoya has been the target of several sexual harassment claims. In 1998, a woman accused the Golden Boy of raping her when she was 15 years old. The suit was eventually dropped after L.A. police failed to find sufficient evidence to bring charges.

[From NY Daily News]

The pictures still look fake to me, but maybe anyone wearing a fishnet body stocking would look like their head was pasted on. Here’s the link to the pictures again. What do you guys think?