When alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman’s Facebook photos broke, she went from threat to national security to sexy “bombshell.” If she plays her cards right, she can ride her “femme fatale” image right to the bank.
Chapman is accused of secretly passing information to Russian officials from various locations in Manhattan — and Now that her picture is all over the Internet, she’s being painted as a sexy siren. In the Post she’s “a flame-haired, 007-worthy beauty who flitted from high-profile parties to top-secret meetings around Manhattan.” And in the AP she’s a “striking redhead” and a “femme fatale” — watch out Natasha. So what’s next for spying’s newest starlet?
Jail
Hotness aside, Chapman allegedly committed a crime — and she’ll probably have to serve time for it. Jeffrey Mankoff, Adjunct Fellow for Russia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, told me her prospects for acquittal looked grim — she was “pretty well caught red-handed,” he explained, and the evidence against her “seems pretty cut-and-dried.” There’s a silver lining, though — as the AP reports, Chapman and her associates are being charged with “failing to register as foreign agents,” rather than with the more serious crime of espionage. Mankoff explains this is probably because they didn’t actually get much useful information out of their cloak-and-dagger (and invisible ink!) escapades. So basically Anna Chapman kind of sucks at spying, and when she gets out of prison (she could get five years), she’ll need a new career. Options abound!
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