Leighton Meester currently resides in New York City. She occasionally keeps fans updated with messages on Twitter.
In June 2009, there were reports accompanied by voyeuristic pictures allegedly from a sex tape, featuring an 18-year old Leighton Meester, being shopped around by an old boyfriend for an asking price up to $1 million. Meester counters the allegations in an interview with the September 2009 issue of Harpers Bazaar: "[The tape] is not real, so it makes me sort of sad. It's unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did. I definitely understand the nature of people better now and that the mere allegation of something like that could be headline news. People think it's real because somebody says it is." Leighton Meester said