A spokeswoman for the senator had no comment.Ĭutler leveraged her notoriety into a book deal that reportedly earned her $300,000 'The Washingtonienne: A Novel' will be published June 1. Steinbuch, who retained his job as counsel for the Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, which DeWine chairs, did not return our call yesterday. The complaint seeks unspecified monetary damages. He alleges that Cutler's blog subjected him to 'humiliation and anguish beyond that which any reasonable person should be expected to bear in a decent and civilized society.' 'It is one thing to be manipulated and used by a lover, it is another thing to be cruelly exposed to the world,' Steinbuch's suit says. The suit, filed Monday and picked up first by the ever-salacious, argues that such matters should never have been made public. He also quibbles with his ex-paramour's assertion that he said he liked 'submissive women.' (He says he actually told her: 'I don't mind passive.' )

In the suit, Steinbuch confirms steamy details of Cutler's online diary of their fling - even citing 'spanking and hair pulling during their sexual activity,' which he claims Cutler, 27, requested. Her blog said she and 'RS' were introduced through a colleague in DeWine's office, where she sorted mail before the senator fired her when the blog became public. Steinbuch, 37, who lives in Bethesda and says he has never been married, identifies himself in the suit as the man Cutler's postings referred to as 'RS' (and on one occasion as 'Rob'). In a graphically detailed invasion-of-privacy lawsuit, Steinbuch says Cutler posted an intimate account of their brief relationship on her 'Washingtonienne' blog, on which she chronicled trysts with six different men. Jessica Cutler, the Senate aide whose kinky sexual exploits scandalized Washington a year ago, has been sued in federal court here by one of her former lovers, Robert Steinbuch, a staff attorney for Sen. 'Washingtonienne's' New Chapter: Defendant

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