The court case against a Japanese advertising executive keeps getting stranger. First the news came out that Toyo Shigeta, CEO of Dentsu Holdings, had forced the company's creative director Steve Biegel to go along to a brothel in Prague, Czech Republic, and urged the married exec to, um, have intimate relations with a call girl.

Now Biegel has claimed in court that Shigeta secretly took crotch shots of tennis star Maria Sharapova when she was posing for a Canon camera ad campaign.

In his lawsuit against Toyo Shigeta, Biegel claims that he was fired because he complained against the CEO's preoccupation with taking photos of women's private parts. He said the married Shigeta also took candid photos of women, such as snapping barely dressed women on a Brazil beach when they bent over (which Biegel said almost got Shigeta attacked by one of the women's male companion).

Of course, racy shots of Maria Sharapova and other celebrities are nothing new. Some photographers seem to make their living selling nothing but celebrity 'wardrobe malfunctions.' Of course, some celebrities only encourage these type of photos by going commando in public, where they know photographers will document their every move.

And what of the photographically inclined Japanese ad executive? Spokespeople for Dentsu deny the charges and are thinking of suing Biegel for libel.

And that crotch shot of Sharapova? It's Exhibit B in the lawsuit.