Olga Rodionova, the wife of a Russian banker and media tycoon, is going to sue Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper for libel, the Trud daily reports. The paper wrote recently that Rodionova intended to star in softcore porn and the woman, whose naked photos appeared in such editions as Playboy and Penthouse, claims that the report was false.

The beautiful, buxom woman has stunned Moscow high society by posing naked for dozens of men’s magazines, while her husband not only did not mind her doing this but also encouraged her. She posed naked stroking a stuffed bear and lying on a Soviet era propaganda banner surrounded by Russian police officers and appeared wearing only a pair of dark glasses under a portrait of Leonid Brezhnev, the former Communist Party Secretary General, in the arms of a soldier who caresses her as several other servicemen wait their turn.

The Sunday Times wrote recently that Rodionova was going to star in a soft porn film. However, no acknowledgement of the fact can be seen from Rodionova’s interview with the paper. “I see no problem with showing off a beautiful naked body,” she said. “Nor do I think there is anything wrong with the sex scenes in my film. I have always dreamt of acting and I see the nudity as art. I have no time for those who criticize me for posing. They are being narrow-minded. They may criticize but clearly they are still interested. If they don’t understand the difference between eroticism and porn, then I can only feel sorry for them.”

Later, Rodionova told the Trud newspaper that the film starring her has only erotic scenes. She said that when a female Sunday Times journalist phoned her and asked whether she was going to act in a softcore porn film, she was surprised, asked where she had found such an information and explained why it was not true. The Sunday Times article was signed by Mark Franketti, the paper’s Moscow correspondent who gained some notoriety after publishing a controvercial report on weapons trade in Moldova and who is not female.

Rodionov family have already hired a group of British attorneys specializing in libel to defend Mrs. Rodionova reputation in a court. The woman said that this was not the first time she had conflicts with western press. Germany’s Bild presented her as “crazy new Russian” and so did the If magazine.

Olga Rodionova, 31, a graduate of a commercial school, says that even her 10-year-old daughter, who is “wiser than journalists”, understands what her mother does and finds her naked photos and her film beautiful.

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