Ex-Villanova student sued for allegedly posting scores of racy and naked photos of professor
An ex-Villanova student already convicted of sharing naked photos of women online allegedly victimized another woman — a university professor who fears she’ll never be able to scrub all the shots off the Web.
Tyler John Jones, a 32-year-old dad, secretly swiped racy and nude photos off the phone of the prof, a friend of his ex-flame, according to a multimillion-dollar New Jersey federal lawsuit filed Friday.
Jones, a carpenter living in Philadelphia, spent two years posting the snaps online — apparently just for the “thrill,’’ according to the plaintiff’s lawyer and the suit.
“I feel like a part of my identity has been taken from me,” the plaintiff, only identified as “J.G.” of Gloucester County, NJ, in court papers, told The Post on Friday.
“I want him to face criminal charges, and I want other women to know how vile he is so that this never happens to anyone else,” the woman said.
J.G., 28, first met Jones in April 2022 through friend Tsai Islam, who was dating Jones at the time, the filing says.
The plaintiff then found out in December 2023 that Jones had been sharing photos online of her “in her underwear or partially or completely naked,’’ the court papers allege.
He started message groups under the name “University Professor Exposed” and shared J.G.’s photos with them on apps such as Discord and Telegram, the filing alleges.
“I think he really enjoyed the thrill of sharing her content while knowing how much it was hurting her and how close he was getting to getting caught,” J.G.’s lawyer, Daniel Szalkiewicz, told The Post.
J.G. discovered the situation when a friend told her someone on an anonymous Instagram account had sent photos of J.G. and wrote, “her face is cute, her body is better… hard to not want more? …Good…Another? …Another?” the lawsuit claims.
The plaintiff filed a report with the police and hired a lawyer within two days, the suit says.
Law-enforcement agencies in New Jersey and in Pennsylvania did not return Post requests for comment to confirm the existence of criminal probes in the two states.
J.G. eventually discovered that Jones had asked to borrow her phone and had both taken a photo with his own phone of the images on her device and Airdropped the images between devices, the suit says.
Even after Jones was confronted by J.G. and Islam about the sick deed, he continued to post the photos of J.G., often daily, the suit claims.
Islam, 29, who goes by the pronouns they/them, told The Post through tears that they were unaware of the alleged crime at the time.
J.G. — who runs a photography business and teaches at an unidentified university — says in her suit that when she then searched the Internet, she “was devastated to see dozens – if not hundreds – of images of herself online.’’
Jones’ “dissemination of plaintiff’s intimate content was so prolific that plaintiff will never be able to scrub the internet of her naked body,” the papers charge.
J.G. is suing for at least $150,000 in damages for each “intimate image” that Jones allegedly shared of her online.
Islam — who dated Jones for two years until they found out about what he’d done to their friend — said Jones had previously told them about his prior conviction.
But Islam said Jones assured them that as a new father, he’d changed and matured and wouldn’t do it again.
Jones had pleaded guilty in 2013 to secretly taking photos of three women — including a minor 17-year-old.
He hid an iPhone in the bathroom of his home in Switzerland, Pa., at the time to capture the women changing, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
He then went back to his dorm room and posted the images to porn sites, CBS News said.
Jones was then a sophomore at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
J.G.’s “life has been devastated by defendant’s intrusion and callous disregard for her privacy,” her new filing claims.
She now has difficulty sleeping, anxious that photos of her are being posted anew online, and she’s been forced to start taking prescription medication “to ease the anxiety and paranoia” that resulted from the online attacks, the suit says.
Szalkiewicz said he doesn’t think his client will “ever feel a sense of justice … until he faces what he’s done.”
Jones did not return Post requests for comment Friday.
