Miley Cyrus video pulled from NY Film Festival after it was submitted without her knowledge.
Miley ain’t so wild after all.
After the Post and other outlets reported Monday the singer had submitted a film for the first-ever NYC Porn Film Festival, her representatives have had the film removed from the Bushwick event and its website.
The festival’s organizer lied when he said Cyrus had personally submitted the film — a 3-minute erotic, bondage-heavy short titled “Tongue Tied” — and then misled the production company Cadence Films into granting permission to use it, her representatives said Tuesday night. The producers and the singer’s representatives asked organizer Simon Leahy to remove the film from the festival and its online listings, which Leahy did Tuesday night.
“Miley was proud to make a film with acclaimed filmmaker Quentin Jones. She did not instigate this festival submission and is not participating in any way,” a spokesperson for the “We Can’t Stop” singer says.
Leahy originally told the Post Monday that Cyrus had submitted to the festival, which opens later this month, after hearing about it through mutual friends. He showed the Post emails with Cadence confirming the company would allow the film to be shown.
But the singer’s representatives said those emails were misleading. The festival was presented then as a “shorts screening at the artist ran space Secret project Robot,” an arts space in Bushwick.
The email contained no link to the NYC Porn Festival site, where visitors face an “18 and over” checkpoint upon entry. Leahy told the Post Tuesday night he complied with the takedown request right away. He also removed a Facebook post bragging “We got Miley!.”
“Basically they didn’t do their due diligence,” he said. “We asked to show it at the festival. Because the word porn is involved, basically the media has just sensationalized it and turned it into a click bait story.”
The news had spread worldwide, appearing on sites like Gawker, MTV and the Hollywood Reporter. “Obviously the story went totally viral that freaked everyone out,” Leahy said. “We don’t want to cause any harm to Miley and her image.”Jacked from Page Six
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