The nickname “Porsche Girl” was given to Nicole Catsouras sixteen years after her passing. In order to view the lethal images, they are also looking for photographs of Porsche girls’ heads.
A automobile accident claimed the life of Nicole “Nikki” Catsouras in 2006. She lost control of her father’s Porsche 911 Carrera and crashed into a toll booth, where she instantly died. Nikki was 18 years old when the incident occurred.
On the internet, numerous pictures of Catsouras’ horribly deformed physique were extensively shared. Due to the distress this caused, Catsouras’ family decided to file a lawsuit after discovering images of her disfigured body online.
Update on the Nikki Catsouras accident: What became of Porsche Girl Head? Obituary and Death
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Nikki Catsouras, the 18-year-old daughter of author Lesli Catsouras and real estate agent Christos Catsouras, left the house on October 31, 2006, to have a joyride in one of her father’s pricey automobiles.
Nikki was fatally injured when her car collided with a toll booth shortly after leaving the House. Given how horrible the accident’s aftermath was, the coroner forbade the parents from recognizing their daughter’s body.
For the time being, the Catsourases would not have to endure the horrifying sight of their daughter’s deformed body.
Criminal detectives granted two California Highway Patrol officers access to images of the crash scene for forensic processing.
The two men allegedly kept sending their friends these pictures through email as a warning against careless driving.
The images swiftly spread across a variety of websites, including gore blogs, body horror discussion boards, and even pornographic websites, and quickly became known as the “Porsche Girl” meme.
Nikki Catsouras’s Family Received Horrific Images from Her
Online trolls allegedly sent Nikki’s family pictures of her with deformities as a cruel prank. They even included offensive subtitles like “hey! dad, I am still alive.” The Catsouras family experienced tremendous and further anguish as a result of this “RIP trolling”.
The father of Nikki Catsouras spoke to the media to call for the “Right To Be Forgotten” to be implemented by American authorities.
The Catsouras family also revealed to director Werner Herzog that they choose to remain offline ever since out of fear of seeing the pictures again in their 2016 documentary Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, which features the Catsouras case in one of its chapters.
The family of Nikki Catsouras filed a lawsuit.
The family of Nikki Catsouras filed a lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the two dispatch managers for publishing the photos.
The family’s legal action against the CHP for exposing the images was initially approved by the judge of the Superior Court of California for Orage County.
The two dispatch supervisors were found to have violated departmental standards after an internal investigation, which prompted the CHP to apologize publicly and take precautions to prevent future occurrences.
O’Donnell was suspended for 25 days without pay. However, Reich’s lawyer claims that he resigned his employment for unrelated reasons.
The CHP sent “cease and desist” notices to numerous websites in an effort to have the photographs taken down from the internet.
The Catsouras family hired ReputationDefender in an unsuccessful attempt to have the photographs deleted. Although the group claimed to have succeeded in getting 2,500 copies of the images removed from websites, they conceded that complete internet deletion would be impossible.
Even though the media sympathized with the parents’ predicament, Ted Frank, an attorney and blogger, asserted that “the Streisand effect has resulted in far more exposure of the horrible photographs.”