We were initially a bit divided as to whether married Tony Parker could be guilty of the hotel romps that were claimed by a French model. Alexandra Paressant went to paparazzi agency X17 with an amusing tale of hooking up with Parker on separate occasions, claiming that he was seeking sex outside his new marriage to Eva Longoria because the petite actress thought sperm was bad for her skin, didn’t want to have sex in front of mirrors, and didn’t like certain sexual positions. Paressant offered four text messages presumably from Parker and her plane ticket to San Antonio as “proof” of their relationship. Parker sued X17 for $20 million, claiming they didn’t do their journalistic duty by failing to report his side of the story and not adequately checking out the woman’s story.

Paressant claimed last year that Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho performed poorly at the World Cup because he was busy bedding her and playing Playstation late into the night. Ronaldinho also sued her for that claim, and while I initially thought that he had actually dated Paressant the real story is that, like Parker, he’s never even met her. She called Ronaldinho constantly, though, pestering him and threatening suicide. She also seems to not be a real model and to be using another woman’s pictures and passing them off as her own.

Dana Kennedy at The Huffington Post investigated the story and concluded that all of Parressant’s claims about both Parker and Ronaldinho were fabricated. In fact she found that many of the photos on X17 were of German model Hana Nitsche, a second runner up on Germany’s Next Top Model’s second season.

There are two different videos of a woman who is supposedly this Paressant person on X17, and she looks an awful lot like the German model mentioned in the Huffington Post article, Hana Nitsche.

It turns out that all of the videos and photos were of Hana Nitsche, not this Paressant person, who no one has ever seen, and that Paressant tricked Nitsche into recording the videos and sending the photos to X17 in an elaborate ploy. Nitsche told her story to the German press in which she revealed the plot:

The 22 year old [model, Hana Nitsche] said that some time ago she was contacted by Alexandra Paressant. “A couple of days ago, she called me again. [She said] I should send her a video.” It was meant to be a casting video. “She gave me the text. She claimed it was about a love movie. I should recite the given sentences. Of course I didn’t know which Tony it referred to.”

[From De.News.Yahoo.Com, roughly translated by my husband]

So some model was tricked by a woman no one has ever seen to claim that she had an affair with Tony Parker. As Crazy Days and Nights reports, it’s not likely that Parker’s lawsuit against X17 for reporting the story will be successful. The woman initially appeared to be believable given the “evidence” she offered and the videos, which weren’t even of her. I would like to see what this Paressant person really looks like as she’s led away in handcuffs and/or sued into the ground by Parker and Longoria. They aren’t my favorite celebrity couple, but when weirdos target people like this they need to be made examples of.

Update: Josh Robertson at The Playboy Blog notes that he found out this woman was a fraud who was using models’ photos and passing them off as her back when she tried to smear Ronaldinho. She either has an accomplice or another pseudonym and is running a scam where she uses the Internet to make her claims seem legitimate. As to what her motivation may be, here’s a NSFW link found by the Playboy Blog. It’s to a French escort agency site for the services of a prostitute named “Alexandra Paressant.”

Eva Longoria’s husband has issued a second stronger rebuttal that he never cheated on his wife with French model Alexandra Paressant. Paressant told her story to paparazzi photo agency X17 in which she claims to have had sex with basketball player Tony Parker at hotels while he was away from his new wife. To corroborate her story she offered four text messages supposedly from Parker in which he asked her in French to meet him. She also added the detail that she was friends with Parker on MySpace, which made her story look false to me, because that’s pretty weak evidence and why would you say that unless you were desperate? A video of the preening model repeating her claim also made her seem less than sincere.

Tony Parker’s first statement didn’t deny the woman’s claim and simply said “I love my wife. She’s the best thing in my life, and I have never been happier.” Perhaps realizing his oversight, he issued another statement through his lawyer that explicitly denied even knowing Paressant, and gave hints of litigation to come:

“Tony adamantly and unconditionally denies ever having laid eyes on this woman, let alone having had an affair with her,” says the attorney, Stanton “Larry” Stein. “The allegations of the supposed affair are entirely false and fabricated.”

Stein went on to say he would “pursue all legal remedies against those making such false accusations.

[From “>News.aol.com]

Late yesterday the news came out that Parker is suing X17 for $20 million for reporting Paressant’s story. I read through the lawsuit papers available on TMZ and Parker’s lawyers’ main complaint seems to be that not only are the claims by Parressant totally false, but that X17 refused to issue a retraction, correction or even acknowledge their statements that her story was false when they were told repeatedly.

They also note that X17 really didn’t do any homework to verify or disprove her claims and that “By intentional and reckless conduct, Defendant caused substantial harm to Plaintiff, in complete disregard of the truth and of even journalistic integrity.”

They also seem quite miffed that the articles are still available with such flimsy evidence as the supposed text messages and a flight itinerary to San Antonio from France, and that Tony’s rep’s statements were never mentioned in the posts.

It’s sounding more and more like this story is a complete fabrication, but if there’s any truth to it it’s sure to come out in the lawsuit. This is the same woman who was sued by Brazilian soccer player Rhinaldo for telling British rag The Sun that he was having sex with her most nights of the World Cup in which he performed miserably and lost. Maybe X17 could have avoided this if they would have checked her out a little more carefully and/or first published a retraction when Tony’s camp denied the story.

Eva and Tony are shown leaving LA for a weekend break on 12/14/07, thanks to Splash News.

X17 has the questionable text messages that Tony Parker supposedly sent French model Alexandra Paressant, who claims that she hooked up with the basketball player and husband of Eva Longoria for sex sessions at hotels after he was married. Paressant was possibly inventing her story for publicity, but she gets credit for making it funny as hell. She claimed that Parker was looking for a release outside his marriage because Eva Longoria doesn’t let him do certain things in the bathroom bedroom and that she “does not want to make love in front of a mirror, does not like [a] certain position and thinks that sperm gives acne.”

Paressant’s claims to X17 are accompanied by various scantily-clad pictures of the model in sexy poses. Eventually she provided the supposed text messages from Tony and her only other “proof” of their relationship was that they were friends on MySpace. There are four text messages proported to be from Parker sent on two separate days in which he tells her in French to meet him or call him.

At first I thought that the messages were fake because commentors on X17 note that all feature the same “time stamp” in the upper right hand corner. That’s the current time shown on the phone when the photos of the phone were taken, though, and not the time stamp of the messages. The time stamp and dates on the messages makes them seem possibly real, although it’s quite easy to fake text messages. It’s also pretty lame that she said they’re friends on MySpace, that’s desperation talking.

As we noted in our earlier post about Parressant, she also claims to have bedded Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho before the World Cup last year, which he lost due to poor performance. Ronaldhino is suing Parressant for defaming his public image. The article I found about it makes it seem as if they did have an actual relationship, but that Ronaldhino is pissed that the woman made him seem like a sucker to the press.

The video of Paressant on X17 makes her seem like she’s super arrogant and I have a tendency not to believe her, but Parker does go for the obnoxious full-of-shit type. She is getting sued for prior claims, but she was apparently the girlfriend of the sports star she made them against. The verdict is still out on this one.

Tony Parker and Eva Longoria’s rep have denied that this story is true, and the newly-married couple issued a joint statement yesterday in which Tony suspiciously didn’t deny the woman’s claims. He just said “I love my wife. She’s the best thing in my life, and I have never been happier.” For her part Eva said that “Tony has been nothing short of the perfect husband.”

Eva Longoria and Tony Parker have one of those marriages that seems unstable. Maybe it’s because they broke up several times before getting married, or because they had both reportedly cheated on each other while dating. Or maybe it’s because Longoria is supposedly quite the control freak in their relationship. Or that anyone who’s “best friends” with Mario Lopez (Longoria) has questionable judgment. During their engagement, there were a lot of reports that Longoria pressured Parker into marriage. Though they’d been together for two years, Parker was only 24 when they became engaged – certainly one could understand how any person that age – but especially a successful NBA star – would want a little more oat sewing time. Longoria also seemed to spend most of her interviews discussing wedding details more than Tony or the relationship. For different reasons, neither seemed ready to get married – Tony for a lack of life experience, and Eva for her focus on material stuff. According to a model named Alexandra Paressant, she and Parker began an affair shortly after his July 7th wedding.

A model claims that Tony Parker cheated on wife Eva Longoria with her in September. Alexandra Paressant told x17online.com that she was a guest at his July 7 wedding and that the basketball player, 25, looked at her with a wandering eye. They were eventually introduced to each other by mutual friend, soccer player Thierry Henry, she said. But it wasn’t until September 29 that Paressant claims she and Parker began exchanging sexually explicit text messages and phone calls while Parker was in Paris at the Park Hyatt Hotel.

They then slept together, she said, and continued seeing each other night after night in Paris until he left to San Antonio a short time later. “We had room service. He said that Eva, sexually speaking, does not want to do certain things,” she said. “She does not want to make love in front of a mirror, does not like [a] certain position and thinks that sperm gives acne.”

[From Us Weekly]

Eva Longoria does seem both dumb and vain enough to believe that sperm leads to acne. I’m totally going to use that line. Not in bed, just to random people on the street. Paressant also told X17 that Parker said he got married because everyone has to at some point in life. Romantic. When they asked if Eva knew about their affair, she responded, “I don’t think she knew about it. She seems quite jealous.” I’m guessing she knows now. And must be thrilled that everyone knows the secret to her clear completion. Paressant also said that when she asked Parker if he and Longoria would have kids, he responded, “Certainly not for now.”

I can’t explain why, but I do kind of believe this story. I have no idea if Alexandra Paressant is a credible source. Most mentions of her online are not to her modeling career but the fact that she was sued by her ex-boyfriend. I believe the story of the affair more because it makes sense in terms of what we already knew about Eva Longoria and Tony Parker’s relationship. Eva seemed to be pressuring a fairly young guy into marriage before he was ready, and she seemed to focus more on having the big fancy wedding in Paris than on the relationship. Hopefully something dramatic and exciting will happen soon, and Eva Longoria will learn that just planning your wedding for 7/7/07 isn’t actually all you need for a successful relationship.

Note by Celebitchy: If you watch the video of the “model” over at X17, she’s a bad actress and seems like she’s full of shit, but this story also rings true to me. It could be a publicity ploy I guess. It’s suspect that the source is X17. Why would this woman talk to them unless she wanted the press? It’s not like they’re going to check out her story or ask for receipts or plane boarding passes.

This same French model claims to be responsible for Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho’s poor performance in last year’s World Cup - because he was shagging her at night and then playing Playstation soccer. I bet it was the video games that did him in.

This woman routinely kisses and tells - but is she telling the truth? Eva and Tony have issued new statements denying the reports. Note that Tony says he loves Eva and that he’s never been happier, but he doesn’t deny the woman’s claims. He seems like a dull blade, though, so maybe that only means they had to get this statement out quickly and didn’t read it over carefully or get another opinion first.

“I love my wife,” Parker said in a statement to PEOPLE. “She’s the best thing in my life, and I have never been happier.” Longoria, who took Parker’s name this year after their July nuptials, added, “Tony has been nothing short of the perfect husband.”

[From People.com]

Pictures of Parresant below are from Ent.qq.com, a Chinese-language site.