A photographer who snapped nude pictures of
Lara Bingle today denied he hed "betrayed" her by making money on the pictures.
The row broke out between Gavin O'Neill, one of Australia's most successful nude photographers, and Lara Bingle's management who claim the photos were taken as test-shots when she was only 17.
O'Neill contends they were taken with the full knowledge and support of her agency.
O'Neill, who has photographed Penelope Cruz, Megan Gale and Tara Moss, told a Sydney newspaper he was being blamed for the "mis-management" of her career.
"This shoot was done with the full knowledge and support of her agency who set up the initial meeting to discuss the shoot in the first place," O'Neill stated in an e-mail.
"So they are well aware of the exact purpose of publishing them in European magazines, as agreed, so I find it all a bit confusing as to why her agency would now slander me in the media, accusing me of cashing in."
An influx of curious Aussie men, eager to get a glimpse of the nude pictures of Bingle, have crashed the GQ Germany Web site after it published nude photos of the popular model.
After it was revealed the nude photos were on the GQ Germany site, hordes of visitors flocked to the site, crashing its servers and resulting in the GQ Germany team to replace the photos with this message:
"Welcome to GQ Germany, Australia! It's always nice to have visitors from Down Under, but our servers were not prepared for this sudden rush. So our work here was done, before it even started. Cheers mates!"
The nude photographs of Bingle - including one showing her sitting in a field of long grass, and another with her wearing pink silk sleeves with the ocean behind her - surfaced last week after men's magazine Zoo Weekly, revealed it would be using them in their defence of legal action brought by Bingle for defamation, misleading conduct and breach of copyright.