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\n\tA New York woman who claims Diplo<\/a> shared sexually explicit videos of her without her consent must use her real name instead of a Jane Doe pseudonym if she wants to proceed with the \u201crevenge porn\u201d lawsuit she filed against the famous DJ last June<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a ruling this week, U.S. District Court Judge M\u00f3nica Ram\u00edrez Almadani said the woman did not meet the requirements for permission to proceed anonymously, either in terms of privacy concerns or potential danger. Lawyers for the woman, as well as those representing Diplo, born Thomas Wesley Pentz, had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cPlaintiff has not made a sufficient factual showing as to the severity and reasonableness of threatened harm and her vulnerability to justify the need for anonymity,\u201d the judge said in her ruling. \u201cThe court appreciates that plaintiff\u2019s allegations in her complaint are \u2018sensitive and [of a] highly personal nature,\u2019 [and] that she may face some public scrutiny if she were to proceed in her own name because Pentz is a public figure. However, absent a demonstrated need for anonymity, there is a prevailing public interest in open judicial proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn her lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles, the woman alleges she was 21 years old in April 2016 when she began communicating with Pentz, who was 37 at the time, over Snapchat. According to the woman, she and Pentz went on to engage in an intimate relationship that lasted several years. She acknowledges that occasionally she allowed Pentz to record them having sex, but claims she \u201cnever gave him permission to distribute those images and videos to third parties.\u201d She alleges that between 2018 and 2023, Pentz recorded himself having sex with her and then shared the video with others over both text messaging and Snapchat. The woman claims that a different woman contacted her in November 2023 to say Pentz had shared some of the \u201cintimate material\u201d with her on Snapchat on Oct. 14, 2018.<\/p>\n \n\tThe woman suing Pentz in federal court says that she immediately reported the alleged sharing to the New York City Police Department on Nov. 7, 2023. In a statement to Rolling Stone <\/em>last June, the NYPD confirmed it had opened a probe. \u201cThere is a criminal complaint on file for unlawful dissemination for a suspect with the name of Thomas Pentz which is currently being investigated by NYPD detectives,\u201d an NYPD spokesperson said. The department did not immediately respond to a request for an update on the investigation sent Friday.<\/p>\n