Salma Hayek’s Hacked Emails Reveal Quotidian Existence
Hackers have broken into Salma Hayek’s email, revealing the actress’s iPhone-app obsession, designer-clothes habit, travel plans, and more. (Her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, who’s throwing a second wedding for her this weekend, pays the bill!)
Unlike with Sarah Palin’s emails, there’s not really a public-spirited reason to post the screenshots the hackers took, except, of course, pure voyeurism. The detail-by-detail, appointment-by-appointment depiction of the lifestyle of a rich and famous actress is all engrossing stuff for the masses (and for us). And yet it feels oddly unsatisfying — the same drip, drip, drip of minutiae that the Internet famous overshare on blogs and Twitter.
Screenshots of the shayek@mac.com email account, released by habitués of the online bulletin board 4chan, appear to be authentic. Breaking into the account was a simple matter of knowing Hayek’s birthday — September 2 — and guessing at her security word (they claim it was a the name of her best known movie role) to reset the account’s password. Public-records searches show that the 323-area-code phone number Hayek listed in a sent email belongs to the actress.
The glimpses into Hayek’s life revealed by her inbox are fascinating, even if mundane: She has been invited to America Ferreira’s 25th birthday party. She downloads a bunch of iPhone applications from the iTunes App Store — and she gets spam from Apple, just like the rest of us. As for the perks of being famous, a driver was scheduled to meet her flight arriving in Abu Dhabi. American Express has given her a new Gold card. (What, she doesn’t rate the exclusive black Centurion Card?) Balenciaga and Stella McCartney deliver designer clothes to her apartment. She schedules “Japanese face massages.” And she gets scans of stories about her in the celebrity weeklies.
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@bytememehard: Dear Salma Hayek, I kinda wish I was you. Love, GypsyStrats
GypsyStrats
@SuzieQ I Love You: Banditas II: Naked Island!
I hope Fatih Akin finally got back to Salma!
freedc
I wish I was invited to America Ferrera's birthday. That shit sounds awesome.
She has a child fathered by the richest man in the western hemisphere, and those incredible edible chichis? Why the hell does she need any kind of credit card? People should be throwing their goods at her.
I honestly can't think of a celebrity's email account I would want to hack...all I know is that Salma Hayek would be about 143rd on the list, right after Rip Taylor.
lawyergay
i can't help but imagine someone filing her toenails as she reads these.
dollar an hour
Stella isn't paying for hair and makeup? BURN!
I'm still surprised that they have computers in Alaska.
I bet Salma is already plotting what she's gonna do with all those billions when her husband passes.
Starting with buying a private island for Penelope and herself.
@lawyergay: Tom Cruise.
Owen, I love Valleywag's gossip, but rifling through hacked emails and posting them online (however mundane), is pretty low. Are you also rifling through Steve Job's trash?
Yes, it's interesting this happened. But posting the emails yourself? That's pretty lame.
Lewisham
I'm all for fun gossip but really, this crosses a line.
NowAvailableinExtraStrength
@bytememehard: Probably so she can spend unlimited amounts of money at a store without having to be driven to it in an armored car.
Why is she blowing off the Flemenco band?
@EaterLover:
La Isla de las Baloobas
I bet Seth Rogen will get a chuckle out of this.
j.blo
U wouldnt hack Obamas emales would u?
they claim it was the name of her best known movie role
Okay, I'm stumped.
@Richard Lawson: its like people have no respekt fro privacey any more. If someone hacked into my emails, well i wouldn't tell you what i would do, but i would probably not keep CALM. emailes are just like regular males; they arn't for people accept for the people there for!
@Trulymadlyme_Saw_Beyonce_At_Burger_King: Haha me too. A bunch of my friends went...terribly jealous I'm not well-connected enough. Think I'll have to inquire if there was a Salma sighting now :)
Seriena
@lacieca01: Timecode, obviously.
@CodePink: i luv the dum libs who r always sayin that privacy is for people but then thye do this!! plus salma is awsom and peeple need 2 learn that, or else their just haters.
@CodePink: go miss California! srsly she stood up 4 what she believes in (and what is right!!) and everyone tried to take her free speach. but i think ur rong that selma is gay shes so pretty plus she has a baby so she cant be gay duh lol.
Japanese face massage?
@Richard Lawson: for real! she is sooooo pretty, prettyier than Penelopey Cruise by a LONGSHOT! but the point of it all is this. when people are diss-respected on the interNet it is never A GOOD THING!!! and the people who think that is a good things are most likely gay!! because let's face it they are diss-respectful. i'm not saying it's not there right i'm just saying that i dont aprove of it as a person.
@Richard Lawson: MY POINT EXACTTLY!!! also, selma being gay, LOL that's not what i meant by it when i said that! you are crackin my sh*it up. OKAY BACK TO TREALITY: what i think is ironic about Mrs. California in the pagent is that hello? everyone said that California was lib than hello Prop Eight got passed which was proof that yes, morals do exist in USA and then Miss California DOUBLEPROOVED IT (an expression of mine) when she said thatthe Bible did't approve. So what can you say to that accept that well. That laws don't matter when were talking abotu WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS RONG!
Why the hell would you participate in the dissemination of this?
jefusan
This freaked me out: "RAMTHA- Salma, in order for Charo to get a discounts she had to of (sic) attended a second 8 to 10 day Advanced Retreat.."
Cool she's pals with Charo- even helping her get a discount for a creepy cult!
[skepdic.com]
@CodePink: i bet some1 who is not TOLERANT of prop8 and peoples relgion that hacked tha emaal becuz y else wud u hack some1s emailes unless u didnt have morils!!! but we are mad and not gunna take it anymoar so tbag partees are gona get this country righ.t. first well start wit who hacked these emales.
@lacieca01: Frida?
b19pen15
@CodePink: lol i only emale with aolers cuz their the only trustworthee 1s
I heard Lawrence Summers was reading through some of these e-mails while he was sitting in on a round-table with Obama earlier today. I think there might be some pictures of this floating around on the blogs ...
El_Gato
and what's worse, it seems she changed her apple password a gagillion times, to no avail.
@Richard Lawson: I COMPLETELY AGREE, YOU SHOULD EMAIL ME AT CODEPINK69BICLOSETCASE AT GMAIL.COM.
You're welcome gawker, I was the anon tipper on this.
GilbertCado
@SuzieQ I Love You: Frida II: Mustache-ride Island.
@b19pen15: Serendipity?
LittleLolly
@Phyllis Nefler: IKR? I wonder if her assistant expects her to be pissed.
My question is . . . why Salma's email?? I mean, the woman is famous but not really FAMOUS, if you know what I mean. Why hack her? How about somebody really interesting?
And all this talk about her and Penelope. I don't see any emails from or to Penelope, do any of you? Now, that could have been interesting.
mslewis
While I don't necessarily support the posting of this (mostly just the credit card stuff)... America Ferrera is having a quarter life crisis? Boo-fucking-hoo.
annab
The best email: (translated)
MELANIE GRIFFITH CALLED. She left a message and wants you to call her back.
I like her even more now, and feel really, really bad that her privacy has been compromised by those d-bags. All this summary shows is how shockingly normal her life is-- I mean, for a celebrity... she gets some massages, gets a driver. So what?
So, they broke into Salma Hayek's email to get a hot pic of a drunken... America Ferrera. Karma will get you on online too, bitches.
@HiredGoons: Oh, that would be delightful.
Treeless
@Baroness: I know! Why wasn't it headlined with this? I guess Hayek's frugality prompts her to follow JZ rather than L Ron.
bitch is hot....
@NowAvailableinExtraStrength: I couldn't look at that personal shit, I scrolled down. Sad. :(
@CodePink: Purrfection.
wow that baby really is cute. i had my doubts, not gonna lie.
also, america's evite...hahhaha.
roxybebop
It must be awful to receive emails from illiterate ne'er-do-wells all day.
@Baroness: Wow. Moronic.
sparklylegwarmers
Will they send her a scan of this?
@bytememehard: So true. She should just open a hand and whatever it is would just appear there, whatever she wanted.
@geerays: Actually I was wondering whether that wasn't the result of the 4channers' hacking efforts, were they trying to change passwords in her apple account and each effort automatically generated a password change notification email to this account. I'm not sure this speculation makes sense but since I know her email account was hacked into by changing the password, it was the first thing I thought of when I saw all those subject lines about the password change on her Apple account.
clickable
Lame. Lame from one end to the other. Mock it, mock people for caring about it, and then rifle through it.
deathbychichi
@kimberlydebarge: Seconded. I mean, nothing extravagant or crazy; basically a hired out taxi driver and a massage that I myself treat myself to every now and again. I never really thought she was intriguing before, but now that she plainly isn't, I'm now intrigued.
Kind of sad seeing her emailing Fatih Akin asking him to contact her (after trying for "weeks"), and then another email nearby saying he passed on her for a role.
a_tipster
@GilbertCado: I'm sure you were the only one.
jobsworth
This is immoral.
fractal_elves
@lacieca01: Desperado?
Oh cool she uses urbanspoon like EVERYONE else.
@lacieca01:
It was Santanico Pandemonium, the stripper in From Dusk TIll Dawn.
ohgee
I live about 15 miles from the Ramtha compound. I can't believe I have been that close to that magnificient bosom.
anglematic
@Baroness: def not a cult, "new agey" at most... but What the Bleep Do I Know?
I just adore that she actually has the squeaky clean image she presents in the public eye ... I was not over the fact that she married Pinault and now I see all about her Balenciaga fittings .. bitch! -te amooo Salma-
BTW, note the message en español where they actually post Mel Griffiths phone number .. gasp!
ultramarine