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Spy Babe Scantily Clad In Russian Maxim
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Jen Chung
Published Oct 19, 2010
Modified Oct 19, 2010
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It seems the road to fame and fortune—or at least infamy and lingerie photo shoots—still exists even if you've been deported from the United States as a bumbling spy. Anna Chapman, the former NYC party girl with extensive Facebook pictures who was accused of being a Russian spy, was sent back to Mother Russia, where she's been made an advisor to a bank and feted by President Dmitry Medvedev with the Kremlin's highest honor. And now she's in the new issue of the Russian Maxim!
Animal has more photographs and notes, "Unlike her cheap hotel room fiasco, the glossy Maxim session - her first professional photo shoot (and airbrushing) - is a valiant attempt to restore the spy gal fantasy... 'Curiosity is my favorite trait about myself,' says Red in busty leotard." And there's also video:
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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