Maria Sharapova Crotch Shot Photos
Toyo Shigeta, the New Jersey-based CEO of the Dentsu Holdings company, allegedly took surreptitious photos of the crotch of Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, while she was on the set of a Canon ad in New York, in 2005.
The existence of the pictures emerged in November, 2007, during a lawsuit filed by the former creative director of the Dentsu ad agency, Steve Biegel, who claimed that he was fired for complaining about repeated incidents of a similar nature. Biegel also claimed that Shigeta pressured him to hire prostitutes while on company trips overseas.
"Taking closeup crotch shots of women is a personal obsession of defendant Shigeta," Biegel claimed in the suit. Dentsu representatives denied the allegations and threatened to countersue Biegel for libel.
One of the photos in question has circulated on the Internet. It shows Sharapova reclined in a chair, wearing a tennis skirt with her underwear visible.
Fast Facts:
- Sharapova born April 19, 1987, Nyagan, former Soviet Union
- In 2006, Sharapova was the world's highest-paid female athlete
- As of April 1, 2008, Sharapova is ranked #5 in the world
- Ranked #1 for a one-week period in August, 2005
- Sharapova's tagline in the Canon commercial was "make every shot a power shot"
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