Lenny Kravitz' Penisgate

Updated Jan 29, 2025 at 06:48PM EST by LiterallyAustin.

Added Aug 07, 2015 at 06:14PM EDT by Don Caldwell.

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Overview

Lenny Kravitz' Penisgate refers to an incident in which singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz accidentally exposed himself on stage during a performance in Stockholm, Sweden.

Background

On August 3rd, 2015, Kravitz' leather pants split down the middle during a performance of the song "American Woman" at a concert in Stockholm, Sweden (shown below). Immediately after, several photos and video of the incident began circulating online.

Notable Developments

Online Reaction

On Twitter, many users posted jokes about the photograph along with the hashtag #penisgate.^[2]

Kravitz' Response

On August 4th, Kravitz tweeted^[1] a screenshot of a text sent from Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler joking about the incident with the #penisgate hashtag (shown below). Within 72 hours, the tweet gained over 25,700 favorites and 19,800 retweets.

"source":https://twitter.com/LennyKravitz/status/628715934962814976/photo/1

News Media Coverage

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the incident, including Perez Hilton,^[4] Metro,^[5] The Indepedent,^[6] NY Mag,^[7] BuzzFeed,^[8] Gawker^[9] and UpRoxx.^[10]

Legal Action

On August 7th, The Metro reported (via NME^[3]) that they had been contacted by Kravitz' legal team for publishing images of the incident, which breached their "clients' copyright, human rights, right-of-publicity and performer's rights."