A model who says she was duped into starring in a sizzling online ad has won a round in her suit against the diamond dealer who commissioned it.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich refused to scrap the suit against Szul Jewelry and said the 37-year-old woman who appeared in the "Rock Her World" can remain anonymous.
The woman, a model and elementary school teacher, wore a teddy in the ad and moaned with pleasure to the hard-grinding sounds of a guitar.
The model sued Szul in January, charging she never signed a release for use of the video and that the company duped her into appearing in a commercial spot that was just too hot.
She insisted she had auditioned for a "comedic" ad, and not one that bordered on porn.
"Unfortunately, for me, everyone who has seen it says it looks like cheap porn, which is not my style at all," the model emailed the video's producer, after the ad's debut.
The 35-second bump-and-grind ad - which earned its sexy star a $200 payday - was viewed close to 1 million times on YouTube before it was taken down from the video-sharing site.
The judge said the woman could remain annoymous because she has "has kept her identity confidential throughout and has complained of harassment, ridicule and embarrassment." Naming her could result in her dropping the case.
The model, who is identified in court papers as the host of a national cable network program, has accused Szul of trashing her wholesome image by posting the video clip on the Web.
Szul had countered that she knew exactly what she was getting in to. The company provided the court with the half-page script, which outlined how the action between a man in boxer shorts and a woman "in the sexiest nightgown imaginable" took place in a dimly lit bedroom.
The script called for her to drop her nightgown around her ankles, lay on a bed and huff and puff excitedly "as though close to having an orgasm."
"Once the Szul necklace is placed around her neck, 'she screams in climax,'" the script says.
Lawyers for the model and for Szul Jewelry did not immediately return calls.
Source: nydailynews
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