Photographer sues fashion big-wig; claims he promised a job boost for sleeping with him

Jose Martinez New York Daily News 08/30/2010 16:01

Photographer Maryam Sayigh

Photographer Maryam Sayigh

A shapely shutterbug is suing an aristocratic fashion honcho, claiming he lured her into the sack with promises of being his No. 2 at one of the country's largest photography studios.

Maryam Sayigh, whose website features suggestive snapshots of women in the nude, accused Pier 59 Studios bigwig Federico Pignatelli of bedding her aboard his boat in the Mediterranean Sea after vowing to boost her career at the sprawling Chelsea Piers studio.

The Italian blueblood, whose ancient family has ties to Pope Innocenzo XII, fired back Monday, calling Sayigh a shakedown artist - and an "unattractive" one at that.

"She's not the type of woman I would sleep with," Pignatelli told the Daily News. "I have plenty of women I can sleep with, so why would I sleep with an employee?"

Sayigh's $2 million suit portrays Pignatelli as a horndog who cut her duties at his fashion photo facilities when she tired of his raunchy talk and refused to act as his "madam."

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