Since she and nine other Russian spies were deported from the U.S. last month in the largest spy swap since the Cold War, Anna Chapman and the others have been kept under wraps in Russia. Her photo shoot in clinging sexy dresses for Zhara Magazine may have been intended as a dramtic announcement that she was back on the scene and available for new career offers bit it all blew up before the magazine could get the print run onto news-stands.

Chapman, the daughter of a Russian diplomat, who spent five years in Britain posted photographs from the shoot on her Facebook page. Several rival media pickled them up and published them.

Maxim Korshunov, the editor-in-chief of Zhara, went mental. The magazine filed a legal complaint against Chapman in a Russian court because the pictures she posted on her Facebook page had gone 'viral' over the Internet.

Korshunov said Chapman was not paid for the pictures that were taken in mid-July in the five-star luxury Balchug Kempinski Hotel across the Moscow River from the Kremlin.

‘There were no financial obligations to her,’ Korshunov said. ‘We weren't expecting to pay her anything and I got the sense she wasn't expecting anything from us.’

LifeNews.ru,a website that is part of the same publishing company as HeatZhara posted the video and photos.

According to LifeNews, Chapman brought her own dresses to the shoot, having come back to Russia with just the clothes on her back. After the shoot, she refused to be interviewed, reportedly because her employers, the foreign intelligence service, won't let her speak out.

The deal with Zhara was that the photographs would notappear on Chapman's Facebook page until after the issue was published.

Faced with the photographs being used in tabloid dailies Komsomolskaya Pravda and Tvoi Den,  News Media-Rus the publisher of Zhara and owner of LifeNews.ru, posted a set of photographs on the web site and a short video of the photoshoot.

The Zhara issue with the feature on Chapman is due out Wednesday.

Chapman poses with the Kremlin in the background Zhara/LifeNews.ru