Lawyers for a Manhattan strip club say the 22-year-old beauty pageant queen whose photo they appropriated to advertise the club is just suing them to get attention. You may recall that back in April, former Miss Oklahoma Laci Kay Scott filed a lawsuit against Ten's Gentlemen's Club after she discovered that the club had been distributing cards on the street with her image—and without her knowledge. Scott, who's been trying to get her modeling career off the ground with gigs posing in prom dress ads, says being mistakenly perceived as a stripper could disqualify her from the pagaent circuit and damage her career. But Ten's owners think this lawsuit has been just great for her. more ›

A former Miss Oklahoma is suing a Flatiron District strip club because owners have been using a photo of her in those advertising cards street hawkers shove at passers-by. Laci Kay Scott, 22, says she's never been a stripper or even posed nude—such activity would disqualify her from the pagaent circuit—and has had to repeatedly deny her presence on the pole to friends, family and colleagues. Most of her fashion modeling consists of posing in prom dress ads targeting teens, and the photo on the cards distributed by Ten's Gentlemen's Club depicts her in a backless, gold-trimmed gown. One designer predicts the false stripper connection "would reflect unfavorably" on future jobs, and Scott describes the impact as "personally distressing and embarrassing" in court papers. Of course, her lawyer sounds even more appalled, telling the Post, "It is absolutely offensive that Ten's would steal the image of a young woman and use it to attract men to the private rooms and what we can only imagine goes on back there." more ›