A Long Island teen beauty says an app-maker turned her into an Internet tart.
Aspiring model Rebecca Battino’s career got off to a strange start when sexy self-portraits she took as a 16-year-old popped up in an online iTunes application called “eXtreme Cam Girls.”
Unbeknownst to her, the images soon spread like a virus to dozens of flesh sites across the Web, making her an international sex sensation.
Battino, now 19, took the pictures of herself in the mirror with a digital camera. The steamy shots were swiped from her computer, Battino claims in a $1 million Manhattan federal-court lawsuit that accuses Apple and app-maker Samba Studios of copyright infringement.
The application has since been removed from the iTunes store, but Battino is fuming that she hasn’t gotten any credit — or cash — for the shots.
“I was just upset that I’m not being paid for my pictures,” she told The Post. “I’m not embarrassed.”
A shot of Battino in a plunging-down-to-there black swimsuit was the only icon advertising the eXtreme Cam Girls app on iTunes, Battino alleges.
She refused to say how or who might have stolen the pics but insists Miami-based Samba Studios never tried to contact her to see if they could use the pictures.
Battino also flipped when she spotted another self-portrait — this time she was sporting a tight, cut-off T-shirt and black lace panties — on a Web site along with a nude shot of former Playboy Playmate Summer Altice.
Now working as a yoga teacher, the 5-foot-1, 100-pound Woodmere resident also let someone else hold the camera for more professional pictures of her frolicking in a shower and running around in panties and a tank-top on the Web site modelmayhem.com.
Samba Studios and Apple did not respond to requests for comment on the suit, which was filed last week.