Two burly off-duty cops armed with the 21-page document were
staking out a New York hotel where the prostitute has been holed up
since her three-in-a-bed lies were published in downmarket US
magazine In Touch.
The £16 million lawsuit accuses Irma of damaging Becks'
reputation and causing him "mental anguish".
News of the World reporters tracked down Nici to the room in the
New York hotel just hours before off-duty New York cops arrived
there with the writ from the angry football superstar and his wife
Victoria.
The celebrity couple are claiming the huge sum - around £16
million - PLUS punitive damages from the call girl
and almost everyone connected with In Touch that printed her pack
of lies, including writers, photographers, editors and
distributors.
The 21-page document, already lodged with the Los Angeles court,
accuses publisher Bauer and editor Michelle Lee of libel and
intentional infliction of emotional distress, despite being
expressly warned that the story was total fabrication.
The writ states: "The case arises from defendants' publication
of lies to make money for themselves and to embarrass and inflict
emotional distress upon Beckham, a world-famous athlete. Defendants
published these statements with actual malice and with intent to
profit by causing harm to Beckham."
Nevertheless prostitute Irma, who told the mag she slept with
Becks FIVE TIMES, has spent this week attempting
to extort another £200,000 from other media organisations for her
lies.
We played along with her in order to expose her scam as the
price tag on her story spiralled up and up.
All the way through the discussions Irma, her notorious madam
and agent Kristin Davis, and executives from the American mag In
Touch - fooled into printing the allegations - confidently insisted
they had evidence to prove their accusations that Beckham paid a
total of £9,400 in cash for two sex sessions was true. But in the
end they could come up with nothing.
Their tale unravelled in a series of meetings with nervy Irma
after we traced her to the hotel on New York's East Side.
LIE! First we pressed Davis and Irma to back up
the hooker's claims that dad-of-three Beckham had sex with her in a
junior suite at Manhattan's Le Parker Meridien hotel in August
2007.
But senior hotel staff vowed to us that neither Becks nor Nici
had been there when she said they were.
A senior marketing manager insisted: "I would know if David
Beckham was ever here, even for a fleeting drink. We've checked our
records and neither he nor the woman named were here."
And amazingly Irma confessed she's not even sure of the exact
date the supposed encounter happened.
LIE! Irma, 26, claims she met Becks after an
introduction through a mutual friend. But tellingly she refused to
give us the pal's name.
LIE! Irma alleged she had sex with Becks
several times and then phoned Davis asking her to supply a
"brunette with curves" for a threesome. But they refused to
corroborate the story by identifing the mystery second vice-girl,
referring to her only as Jess.
Davis, who served four months in prison for supplying
prostitutes to New York's elite, claimed: "Jess will never meet or
talk to you in person about it. She's out of the game, and not even
in this state. She wants nothing to do with it. She will not talk
for all the money in the world."
LIE! Irma claimed she had phone records of
Beckham calling her from the Manhattan hotel. But when pressed she
could not produce any. Lamely she claimed she had lost the password
for internet access to her mobile account and admitted she didn't
have paper records.
LIE! Olive-skinned Irma insisted she keeps
detailed notes on all her client bookings. But she could not
provide a phone number for Beckham. "I never wrote it down," she
said. "It wasn't a big deal."
LIE! The vice girl offered to show us evidence
of US immigration stamps in her passport to prove she was in New
York at the time she alleges she was with Beckham. Sadly, she
didn't have the document with her. And later she claimed her
handbag had been "stolen".
LIE! Irma claimed she had a second sex romp
with Beckham at London's Claridges a month later. But she said
credit card receipts to show she was there were unavailable.
LIE! The hooker swore to us in her rasping East
European accent: "It is all true what I wrote in the magazine - I
was very happy with it."
But she refused to take a lie detector test - standard practice
in the USA on such stories. Her excuse was that the results would
give police the opportunity to convict her as a prostitute -
although she had already admitted that in print.
LIE! Irma told us her surname Nici, used by In
Touch, was real. But a day later she admitted it was a
"professional name". Then she insisted it's her mum's "maiden
name". But we can reveal her genuine surname is Nezirovic and her
family live in Holland.
Crazy demands for Irma's story included clauses that would
indemnify the US magazine publisher from legal action by Beckham -
even if their story proved to be untrue!
At our first meeting with Irma, she had clearly been crying. She
acted shifty as she lounged on the bed, often glancing at Davis for
assurance.
Looking solemn in a tarty see-through black sweater dress, with
huge bags under her eyes, she had clearly not slept well for days.
She picked at chocolate frosted cupcakes, spilling crumbs on her
bedspread, while feverishly necking energy drink Red Bull.
"I've had ten today," she said, fighting to stay awake.
Having sold her scandalous fantasy - touted as "the greatest story
in the world" - Irma now had the nerve to snivel about the
attention she had attracted. My mother sort of knew what I did but
she isn't happy," she whined. "And my uncle is furious. The TV in
Bosnia is running the stories about me. This is bad for
me."
Instead of the glamorous courtesan, she now looked a gibbering
wreck, terrified of leaving the room, scared of the tsunami of
outrage and curiosity that has swept the world. With straggly hair
and no make-up, she seemed a far cry from the image portrayed in
near-naked pin-up shots flogged around by her agent.
But the busty 36DD brunette cheekily managed to conjure up
several more allegations about former England captain Beckham's
performance in the sack. "He was no big deal," she claimed. "I've
had other, more famous clients."
Despite the glaring lack of credibility, gullible In Touch
executives told the News of the World: "Once you meet Irma you will
know she is telling the truth. Her story is consistent." But the
magazine bosses, also served with a Beckham writ on Friday, had got
it wrong again.
Nevertheless, conniving agent Davis demanded $300,000 (£190,000)
for an interview, photo and video shoot with Irma and bragged: "I
love the negotiating."
The mouthy madam - running as a candidate for Governor of New
York on a platform of legalising prostitution and marijuana -
added: "My girl is telling the truth. She was good at her job. I
want control over her image. Tramp sells." The meeting was
abandoned after an hour, with a promise to reconvene next morning,
Friday, at 11am. Irma stretched out and yawned: "I just wanna go to
sleep."
But at around 2.25am Irma, wearing the same black dress, walked
out of the front entrance of the hotel with a suited driver
carrying a black bag. She tried to hide her face as our
photographer spotted her. She then quickly retreated back to her
room. The photographer said: "It was was all very weird - it makes
you wonder if she was out for some extra business."
In her six-page In Touch story Irma depicted herself as a
jet-setting happy hooker, who has banked hundreds of thousands from
her dodgy lifestyle.
But during our meetings it was plain that she was really
miserable, unhappy with her career choice and desperate for
fame.
In an extraordinary few minutes she tried to blame her childhood
and disastrous relationships with men for putting her on the road
to maligning David Beckham - who yesterday flew to Trinidad after
playing Friday night for LA Galaxy, losing 2-0 to New York's Red
Bulls.
She claimed she was forced to go public about her life of vice
after an ex-boyfriend found her secret diary and threatened to sell
it.
Irma, who lived for a while in London's Paddington, said: "But I
made notes on my clients. I wrote about all my experiences. My ex
threatened to expose me so I asked Kristin for help. I'm still
worried about him, I think he still has the diary."
Brassy blonde Davis, 49 - known as "the hooker booker"
after exposing shamed ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's sexual
habits - bragged: "Irma was one of my best girls. She flew
backwards and forwards from London. Sometimes she was so busy she'd
be here in New York for four months at a stretch.
"I had to have words with her ex boyfriend but we couldn't take
the risk Irma would be exposed. We needed to take control, and she
trusts me. So we decided to do it."
Irma claimed she fell into prostitution after meeting a jet-set
crowd in St Tropez when she was 17, then moving to London. Irma
said her diary was "more real" than Belle de Jour's bestseller and
she planned to write her own kiss-and-tell book.
But yesterday afternoon Irma had a change of heart and insisted
she regretted her decision to sell her story. "I never wanted to do
it in the first place," she moaned.
"I haven't even got money from Kristin. Everyone is making money
besides me. I plan to leave tonight. I'm done with everyone,
including Kristin. They're selling me out. I have contacted someone
who's going to guide me there. I've had enough."
Last night publicist Max Clifford revealed Irma had contacted
him to sell her story in the UK. He said they had agreed to meet in
London and he had warned her not to speak to anyone.
by James Weatherup in Velp, Holland
THE stunned brother of hooker Irma Nezirovic last night told how
her family only learned of her vice girl life on TV.
Damier Nezirovic, 23, insisted relatives had no idea about her
seedy job until news of her claims against Becks was broadcast in
Holland.
"It has come as a big shock. We didn't know she was working as
an escort," he said.
We traced Nezirovic's brother and stunned mother Nadia down to
the quiet town of Velp near Arnhem on the Dutch-German border.
"I haven't spoken to my sister for about a year but I'm backing
her," said Damien. Mum Nadia refused to comment. But a neighbour
said there had been suspicions about what she did for a living.
"She was here last year and was very done up. When she comes she
is always plastered in make-up and wears posh clothes and high
heels. I've seen men arrive in big cars and take her out."
We also traced the one-bedroom flat in Paddington, north-west
London, where Nezirovic lived until three months ago.
A neighbour said: "The walls here are pretty thin and so you can
hear most of what goes on next door.
"It's fair to say it was obvious that she was a prostitute."