The family of an Eagle woman wrongly identified on the Internet as Kobe Bryant's alleged victim has hired an attorney, hoping to snuff the "wildfire" spread of her photo.

Edwards attorney Sienna LaRene has sent "cease and desist" letters to several Web sites, asking them to stop using the woman's picture. Some have altered photos to put the wrong woman's face on nude bodies, LaRene said.

At least two sites have complied, but the image has burned across the Internet with the force of last summer's Colorado wildfires, LaRene said.

"You hope it will die out, and it doesn't because it seems to take a life of its own - it creates its own environment," LaRene said.

There are similarities between the woman wrongly depicted on the Internet and the alleged victim, who has said Bryant, a Los Angeles Lakers basketball star, sexually assaulted her at a posh Colorado resort.

Both women are 19 years old, have the same first name and attended Eagle County High School. While the young woman in the Bryant case was a cheerleader, the other woman was on the school's dance squad.

"Somebody put two and two together - these intersections of similarities - and came up with five," LaRene said.