Lingerie football league player sues ex-boyfriend over nude pictures

Washington, Dec 30 (ANI): Lingerie football league player Melissa J. Berry has sued her former boyfriend for posting nude and intimate photos of her on the Internet.

Berry, 24, sued Mark C. Dawson in Hillsborough County Circuit Court on December 30, and said that he was trying to extort, humiliate and hurt her by showing the photographs to her mother and friends.

She said that Dawson posted the photographs on MySpace.com without her permission.

Dawson, a safe dating expert, was berated by Berry, who said that he should know better because he markets himself as an expert on "healthy relationships" who has studied "success, performance and human behaviour for over 25 years."

Dawson on the other hand said that Berry, who used to be a dancer at Thee Dollhouse, willingly posed for the photos and that he "never made anything public."

"This is nothing but an ex-girlfriend trying to cause problems," Tampa Bay Online quoted him as saying.

"For her to say that these pictures were taken against her knowledge is untrue because she is smiling in them. She takes her clothes off for a living and tells people I am doing all this other stuff. What she's doing now is creating a drama because there are pictures out there of her," he added.

Berry retorted back by saying that she would take her clothes off if that was what she did for a living.

"If I wanted to take my clothes off for a living, that's what I would do," she said.

"There's not a photographer that has ever taken those sorts of shots of me. It's more of a privacy thing. It's not for everyone else to see," she added.

Berry is seeking unspecified damages in excess of 15,000 dollars. (ANI)