NJ Probe After Nude Photo Appears On Kellyanne Conway's Twitter

ALPINE, NJ — The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office is investigating after a nude photograph of Claudia Conway, 16, was reportedly posted to Kellyanne Conway's Twitter account earlier this week.

Alpine Police Chief Chris Belcolle and Assistant Prosecutor Elizabeth Rebein confirmed with Patch Thursday that "an investigation is being conducted" by the Prosecutor's Office, but no additional information was available.

The photo was reportedly posted as a Twitter fleet — the platform's answer to Instagram's stories — Monday, but quickly deleted, according to The Cut.

Twitter users were able to capture the moment, however, and quickly spread word of what was happening across the platform, and to authorities.

Claudia Conway responded to the picture in a since deleted TikTok video, initially saying she believed Kellyanne, one of former President Trump's chief advisors, "accidentally posted it or somebody hacked her."

The younger Conway hypothesized that her mom gained access to the photo after she took the teen's phone.

"I'm assuming that my mom took a picture of it to use against me one day, and then somebody hacked her or something," Conway said.

The teenager has since backtracked, posting another video on TikTok asking that people stop reporting the matter to police, and offering confidence that her mom wouldn't do something so vindictive.

"I have faith and I know that my mother would never put something like that on the Internet," she said, adding that she'd be taking a break from social media because the family is "tired of being headlines."

Kellyanne Conway offered no comment to CNBC or the Post.

That video was posted Wednesday, after the New York Post reported that Alpine Police visited the family home Tuesday. Belcolle did not confirm the visit when asked.

A TMZ report indicates that this isn't the first time police have visited the Alpine home in recent weeks.

The outlet reported that police performed a welfare check sometime last week after Claudia posted a TikTok video of her mother screaming at her. A second video was posted in which audio of Kellyanne speaking with local police is heard.

Claudia took to Twitter in August to announce she was seeking emancipation from her parents, saying that her "mother's job ruined my life to begin with. heartbreaking that she continues to go down that path after years of watching her children suffer."

She later clarified that the push for emancipation wasn't wholly because of her mother's work, rather "because of years of childhood trauma and abuse."

Kellyanne Conway left her position within the Trump White House a day later.

Conway's husband, George T. Conway III, who was a vocal opponent of the president, also took a step back from the Lincoln Project at the time to "devote more time to family matters," he said.

READ MORE: New Jersey Native Kellyanne Conway Leaves White House Post

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