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Dating Naked Contestant Sues over Crotch Shot

By Alexis L. Loinaz

08/22/2014 AT 09:40 AM EDT

From birthday suit to lawsuit.

Dating Naked cast member Jessie Nizewitz is suing VH1's parent company Viacom for breach of contract after the network aired uncensored au naturel footage of Nizewitz to shocked viewers of the titillating reality show.

The complaint, which was filed in Manhattan, also takes two production companies to task for broadcasting a clip in July during which a shot of Nizewitz's crotch was not blurred out.

The model says producers promised non-G-rated glimpses of her body would be appropriately concealed.

That's not exactly how it all went down on Dating Naked 's third episode, which showed Nizewitz, 28, and her potential paramour getting, well, down and dirty in the sand as they wrestled, setting the stage for the peek-a-boo in question.

The suit, obtained by PEOPLE, claims Nizewitz suffered "severe emotional distress, mental anguish, humiliation, and embarrassment" after the slip-up.

"I felt lied to, manipulated and used. I was horrified," the Long Island-based Nizewitz told the New York Post . adding, "I immediately started getting text messages. Everyone saw it."

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She also says that the offending boob-tube exposé ruined a burgeoning romance.

"He never called me again after the show aired," she told the paper. "I would have hoped we could have had a long-term relationship."

Nizewitz is seeking $10 million in damages. A rep for the network declined to comment.

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New York model Jessie Nizewitz, 28, says the headline-making freshman reality series (trailer ) flashed her crotch during one segment where she playfully wrestles with a date on the beach. Viewers noticed the unexpected reveal despite it being a very brief shot, and Nizewitz says she’s been humiliated on social media. Producers had allegedly assured Nizewitz that her genitals would be fully blurred during the episode. ( Dating Naked typically shows bare buttocks, but breasts and genitals are heavily blurred.)

“I have no problem going to a beach in a bikini or people seeing me on TV in a bikini,” Nizewitz said in a statement released to EW by her attorney, Matthew J. Blit. “Although I went on this show knowing that I would be nude while taping it I was told that my private parts would be blurred for TV. If you watch an episode, you will see that the blur actually makes it less revealing than a bikini would. Obviously, I did not expect the world to see my private parts, this is not what I anticipated or what any other contestants on the show anticipated.”

Nizewitz is suing VH1 operator Viacom and two production companies, none of which had comment. The suit filed late Wednesday claims uncensored images of Nizewitz were passed around Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr after airing on VH1. “Plaintiff… was shocked, horrified and outraged to observe this intrusion into her privacy for all to see,” reads the suit. “Immediately Plaintiff became subject to ridicule by those watching. … Plaintiff has suffered and continues to suffer extreme emotional distress, mental anguish, humiliation and embarrassment. … Defendants knew or reasonably should have known that broadcasting an individual’s vagina and anus on national cable television would cause substantial and severe emotional distress.”

Adding insult to alleged injury, Nizewitz also noted in a New York Post interview that a man she was dating never called her again after the show aired.

Dating Naked is part of the current wave of nude reality shows led by Discovery’s Naked and Afraid . Though the summer dating series has been slammed by a parents group for putting semi-nudity on basic cable, the show has an impressive match-making success rate—six couples who have met on the show have stayed together, VH1 claims, and one of those couples is getting married .

While the show has generated plenty of online buzz since it premiered last month, viewership remains modest—averaging about 800,000 viewers per first-run episode.

Ariana Bacle contributed to this report.

‘Dating Naked’ Lawsuit Seeks To Strip Viacom Of $10M For Showing Too Much

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Truly, Not to Yea nor Nay, but it's Sodom and Gomorrah all over again so; dance, "love".

Also fueling the legal action is the fallout Nizewitz suffered from the female equivalent of the full Monty. “Since the initial airing of the third episode of Dating Naked . Plaintiff has suffered and continues to suffer severe extreme emotional distress, mental anguish, humiliation and embarrassment, as the uncensored episode and uncensored pictures therefrom have been uploaded to various Internet websites including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr,” says the 12-page filing.

The complaint also says that Nizewitz has suffered “economic loss through Defendants’ unauthorized commercial use of uncensored images of Plaintiff’s vagina and anus, which was not part of the bargain.” To that end and those “unlawful actions,” as well as the $10 million, Nizewitz wants unspecified damages calculated in regards to the her loss of income because of the incident and Viacom and the producers to get all the pics and footage of her privates off the Internet. Additionally, Nizewitz wants further and future showing of said images on VH1 or another Viacom-owned entity stopped – though it is unclear if a blurred version would be OK.

Matthew Blit of the NYC offices of Levine & Blit, PLLC is representing Nizewitz in this birthday suit lawsuit

Dating Naked

These days we’re supposed to be more “connected” than ever, but it’s actually harder than ever to truly connect. Online dates, blind dates, and the latest in ridiculous dating apps all make it hard to see people for who they really are.

A new social experiment provides daters with a radical dating experience where before they bare their souls they bare everything else first. Each week on a primitive island resort, far from the masks of modern society, daters will go on exotic dates and be naked every step of the way.

We will follow along as two primitive daters each go on a total of three naked dates, including their first date with each other. At the end of this experience they’ll choose which of their naked dates they would like to continue dating back home. Clothing will of course be optional.

Naked daters will bare their soul and a whole lot more in this groundbreaking dating experiment.

The Naked Brothers Band (TV series)

The Naked Brothers Band is an American musical comedy series created by Polly Draper. The show depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a fictional world-renowned rock band from New York City. As a mockumentary. the storyline is a hyperbole of their real lives, and the fictional presence of a camera is often acknowledged. Lead vocals and instrumentation are contributed by the siblings; they wrote the lyrics themselves. The show stars Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff. who encounter conflicts with each other that are later omitted. Nat's fictional female admirer and real life preschool friends—including the guitarist who had no prior acquaintance with the family—feature as the band members, with the siblings' genuine father and Draper's husband as their accordion-playing dad and Draper's niece as the group's babysitter.

The series is a spin-off of Draper's 2005 film of the same name that was picked up by Nickelodeon. premiering in January 2007. Draper, star of Thirtysomething and her writings The Tic Code and Getting Into Heaven . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is the executive producer of the series, and often writer and director. Albie Hecht. former Nickelodeon president and founder of Spike TV. is the executive producer, under his Worldwide Biggies tag. Draper's jazz musician husband Michael Wolff serves as the music supervisor and co-executive producer with Draper's brother, Tim. as the consulting producer.

The show first aired in the United States on the network on February 3, 2007 to an audience of exactly 4.7 million viewers. Viacom announced, it "delivered Nickelodeon's highest-rated premiere in seven years" and instantly became one of the most favorable for children aged 6–11. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to an article by TV reporter Jacques Steinberg. of The New York Times . the series' popularity is equivalent to Hannah Montana and Cory in the House . Three seasons aired and concluded unexpectedly on June 13, 2009 due to the network placing high demands on the family that would disrupt the siblings' schooling. [ 5 ] The series earned 1 Broadcast Music, Inc. Cable Award; 2 Writers Guild Award nominations, winning one WGA; 3 Young Artist Award nominations; and was nominated for 1 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award (both in the United States and United Kingdom ).

Naked City (TV series)

Original run

September 30, 1958  – May 29, 1963

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name. and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary ” format.

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Filmed on location in New York City. the series centered on the detectives of NYPD ’s 65th Precinct, although episode plots usually focused more on the criminals and victims portrayed by guest stars, characteristic of the "semi-anthology" narrative format common in early 1960s TV (so called by the trade paper Variety ). [ 2 ] Primary writer Stirling Silliphant nurtured a focus on intelligent drama with elements of comedy and pathos, leading to significant critical acclaim for the series, and leading film and television actors of the time sought out guest-starring roles. In addition to Silliphant, who went on to win an Academy Award for his script of In the Heat of the Night . writers of Naked City episodes included veteran TV writer Howard Rodman and blacklisted screenwriter Arnold Manoff. writing under the pseudonym Joel Carpenter .

Many scenes were filmed in the south Bronx near Biograph Studios. where the series was produced, and in Greenwich Village and other neighborhoods of Manhattan. The exterior of the “65th Precinct” was the Midtown North (18th) Precinct at 306 West 54th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in some episodes and in others was the current 9th Precinct at 321 East 5 Street between 1 Avenue and 2 Avenue before it was renovated.

Naked City first aired in the 1958-1959 season, with the title The Naked City . as a half-hour series starring James Franciscus and John McIntire playing, respectively, Detective Jimmy Halloran and Lt. Dan Muldoon — the same characters as in the 1948 film. While critically acclaimed, the series did not garner high ratings. Midway through the season, McIntire quit the show because of his desire to leave New York and move back to his Montana ranch. He was replaced with Horace McMahon who was then introduced in the same episode as Muldoon's curmudgeon replacement, Lieutenant Mike Parker.

The narrator for the first season was the producer, Herbert B. Leonard, identifying himself as "Bert Leonard".

In its first season, the half-hour version of Naked City preceded the ABC crime/police documentary called Confession . in which Jack Wyatt. later an Episcopal priest, interviewed assorted criminals to determine why they had rejected societal mores and turned to a life of lawlessness. [ 3 ]

The cast change did not help the show's ratings and Naked City was cancelled by ABC at the end of the 1958-1959 season. One of the show's sponsors (Brown & Williamson ), along with production staff, successfully lobbied the network to revive the show as an hour-long series, which premiered in 1960. The 1960 version featured Paul Burke as Detective Adam Flint, a sensitive and cerebral cop in his early thirties who does much of the legwork in the episodes. The preceding season, Burke had appeared with David Hedison in the short-lived NBC espionage drama, Five Fingers . Horace McMahon returned as Lieutenant Mike Parker as did Harry Bellaver as the older, mellow Sgt. Frank Arcaro. Nancy Malone appeared as Adam Flint's aspiring actress girlfriend, Libby. The hour long version of the show was broadcast on ABC in the 10:00 p. m. slot on Wednesday nights.

"There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them."

— The famous closing narration

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The 1959 Naked City episode "Four Sweet Corners" served as a back door pilot of sorts for Route 66 . a series created by Stirling Silliphant. Route 66 ran on CBS from 1960 to 1964, and, like Naked City . followed the "semi-anthology" format of building the stories around the guest stars, rather than the regular cast. [ 4 ]

Guest stars [ edit ]

Many of the actors listed above played multiple roles on different episodes, i. e. as different characters.

Sanford Meisner. the noted acting coach, made a rare celluloid performance in an episode of the series. Acting coach and actress Peggy Feury also made an appearance, in a different episode. Rocky Graziano made an appearance during his relatively brief post-boxing acting career. Actors such as Conrad Bain. Dabney Coleman. Ken Kercheval. Burt Reynolds and Jessica Walter appeared in bit roles, long before attaining any measure of fame.

Several actors played recurring roles, i. e. Suzanne Storrs (as "Janet Halloran" in nine episodes during the series' first version, featuring Franciscus and McIntire), Jimmy Little as "Desk Sergeant", Robert Dryden as "Police Surgeon", and Richard Kronold as "Detective Dutton". [ citation needed ]

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No = Overall episode number

Ep = Episode number within the season