MOSCOW — Glamorous Russian agent Anna Chapman has posed provocatively for a Russian magazine shoot in her first public appearance since she was deported from the United States in a major spy swap.
The tabloid-style lifenews.ru site on Thursday showed film footage of the 28-year-old redhead being photographed for an upcoming edition of glossy magazine Zhara, Russia's version of Heat, in a VIP room in the upscale Balchug hotel near the Kremlin.
In the 1-minute, 43-second clip, Chapman struts about in two figure-hugging dresses.
"Clearly enjoying showing off her curves, Chapman shows that women's secrets mean more to her than those she kept at the secret service," the website wrote, in a clear jibe at the fact Chapman and nine other Russian spies were caught.
Zhara accused Chapman of copyright violation for posting a shot from the photo shoot on Facebook ahead of publication, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website. The photo showed her in a low-cut dress seated by a window overlooking the Kremlin, the Journal said.
In July, in one of the biggest spy swaps since the end of the Cold War, 10 people in the U.S. who admitted to being agents for Russia were exchanged for four imprisoned Russians who were accused of having traded secrets with the West.
Dubbed the "femme fatale" of the Russian spy ring, Chapman became something of an Internet sensation when images of her first emerged in the days following news of a Russian spy cell in the United States.
Chapman — who is the daughter of a Russian diplomat (who her ex-husband dubbed "scary") —said she had a master's in economics and billed herself as the founder of an online real estate company worth $2 million.
She reportedly lived a socialite lifestyle in Manhattan's Financial District after divorcing her husband.
Under the terms of the plea agreement in the spy swap, Chapman and the other nine agreed they would need to get the formal OK from the U.S. attorney general in order to ever return to the United States, according to . In addition, they cannot make money by publishing accounts of their stories.
It is unclear whether Chapman received any money for the lifenews.ru shoot.