Nineteen-year-old Rino Sashihara was removed from the wildly popular Japanese girl group AKB48 and transferred to a far-less-celebrated sister group HKT48 after a man claiming to be an ex-boyfriend said he had risque photos of her. She denied the allegations, but the damage to her reputation was done. (Photo from HKT48 official website)
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