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Tiger Woods, celebrities caught up in legal action against porn site over nude images

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Tiger Wood and Lindsey Vonn split in 2015. Photo / Getty Images

Tiger Wood and Lindsey Vonn split in 2015. Photo / Getty Images

Tiger Woods has reportedly set his lawyers on a porn site that posted explicit nude photos of him and Lindsey Vonn.

The site posted the nude photos after they were hacked from Vonn's phone, TMZ reported.

They include images of Woods that he sent to the Olympic gold-medalist skier while the pair were in a relationship, the site said.

The 14-time gold major winner, 41 and Vonn, 32, split in May, 2015.

Other celebrities whose hacked photos appear on the site include Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart and Katharine McPhee, the Daily Mail reported.

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Vonn purportedly appears in 22 of the nude images on the site, although the subject's face is only partially visible, so it's unclear whether the photos are definitely of her.

In several of them the woman is fully nude save for a pair of snow boots, apparently photographing herself in a body-length mirror from the front and back.

Other images in the set explicitly show the naked front and rear of what appears to be the same woman.

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Of the two private images purporting to be of Woods, both also obscure his face - although the bottom half of the face in the images look strikingly similar to Woods'.

In one, the man is seen shirtless on a golf course, holding a club. In the other, he is totally nude, facing forward and apparently taking a photo in a full-length mirror.

American Idol winner and actress Katharine McPhee is also reportedly taking legal action. Photo / Getty Images
American Idol winner and actress Katharine McPhee is also reportedly taking legal action. Photo / Getty Images

Other photos in the gallery include Vonn and Woods in fully-clothed selfies, and one image of the pair posing for a photo, looking close.

A video, purportedly also of Vonn in a bath, has also been leaked on the site, although the woman's face is glimpsed for only a moment.

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Woods is reportedly furious about the leak and is demanding that the site remove the images or face his wrath.

Also firing up the engines for legal action is American Idol winner and actress Katharine McPhee.

She is seen topless and fully nude in several pictures on the site, with her face uncovered or only partially covered.

There are other, more graphic images purporting to be of McPhee, although no face is visible in any of them.

Photos of Miley Cyrus reportedly appear on the porn site. Photo / AP
Photos of Miley Cyrus reportedly appear on the porn site. Photo / AP

Other galleries on the site are dedicated to grainy images of Miley Cyrus topless or fully nude, including two with her one-time New Zealand girlfriend, Victoria's Secret supermodel Stella Maxwell.

Kristen Stewart is also among the victims of the site, with photographs including topless images and one nude image of an unclothed, unidentifiable woman's lower half.

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Images of Kiwi model with Miley Cyrus reportedly appear on the porn site. Photo / Getty Images
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