FormerAmerica's Next Top Model finalist Jael Strauss has settled her invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against her former talent agent and a photographer she accused of publishing underage nude pictures of her without permission.

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. However, a court clerk confirmed that no further action was on the docket.

In her suit, filed in July in Los Angeles Superior Court, Strauss claimed that writer-lensman Marc Baptiste took revealing photos of her in 2000, when she was only 16.

He then included two particularly bare shots in his book Beautiful: Nudes by Marc Baptiste without getting approval from the minor's parents.

Phony, pathetic, desperate-for-attention Tyra Banks was hooked up to a lie detector on her talk show earlier this week. It was part of a promo for the new game show, Moment of Truth.

"Now I know that there are some of you out there who question a few things about me.  That's why I've climbed into this hot seat so I can clear some things up once and for all in my own moment of truth," said Banks as she was strapped into the lie detector.

The Moment of Truth host Mark Wahlberg asked the America's Next Top Model creator and lead judge if she thought every winner of the show deserved to take home the title.

"I have gotten out-voted for girls on America's Next Top Model who have gone home," she answered.  "But I have never gotten out-voted when there was a winner.  I have always voted for the winner that won."

LIAR, the machine buzzed!

"What's up with that machine!?  Hindsight is 20/20 y'all!" explained Banks, adding she only questioned her final decision of America's Next Top Model winners after seeing some of the season's exploits during editing.

Do you buy that explanation? Do you like Tyra? 

Before there was Saleisha Stowers, there was CariDee English.

The former winner of America's Next Top Model has taken advantage of her fame to help raise awareness about psoriasis, a skin disease that she's battled and was open about on the show.

Recently, English headed down to Miami to participate in a walk-a-thon about the disease. While there, she talked about her prior experience as a model in the city.

"I used to model in Miami," CariDee said. "I lived here my senior year of high school and worked with Mega Models. They sent me home immediately after they found out I had psoriasis, a hereditary skin disease that I have had for 16 years, that's now under control by medication.

I moved on and eventually ended up being America's Next Top Model, and now I'm the spokeswoman for psoriasis around the world."

As for advice English has for upcoming models?

"Have a strong heart and mind, as this industry will love you and spit you out in a second."

America's Next Top Model returns to New York City for season 10. Among the contestants vying for this year's top prize?

Marvita (pictured below), a semi-finalist during season nine; she was eliminated right before the finalists went to the house. Here's a rundown of other contestants on season 1o of America's Next Top Model, premiering February 20:

Aimee
Age: 18
Occupation: Hostess
Hometown: Spanaway, Washington

Allison
Age: 19
Occupation: Hostess
Hometown: Waunakee, Wisconsin

Amy (a.k.a. "Amis")
Age: 20
Occupation: Waitress
Hometown: Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Anya
Age: 19
Occupation: Retail Sales
Hometown: Honolulu, Hawaii

Atalya
Age: 18
Occupation: Student
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York

Claire
Age: 24
Occupation: Production Coordinator
Hometown: New York, New York

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We're guessing Saleisha Stowers is excited to be famous and wear lots of designer clothing.

But the ninth winner of America's Next Top Model says her most important challenge will be to act as a role mode.

"I've gone through a lot of things that every little girl will probably go through. Just trying to find yourself, trying to feel loved, trying to know what's your purpose in life," Stowers told reporters during a Thursday conference call.

"I think that I can be a great role model and just help girls out... I can show young girls what I've been through, and how it's okay to be scared, but you can still overcome that fear. It doesn't matter how insecure you are. One day, you'll look inside yourself and realize you're a beautiful person. You can be that confident girl who's on the runway; you don't have to hate yourself because you're not."

As for the future, Stowers said she currently intends to stay in L.A. for a while and "take it one day at a time."

"Top Model was a great door opener for me, so now I'm ready for many doors to open and just go out there and show everyone how successful I can be and just prove my career to the world... I just can't wait to see what else is in store for me."

Saleisha Stowers was crowned America's Next Top Model's ninth-season champ during last night's finale.

Following the victory, the beauty said:

"When I was younger I was just weird. I had low self esteem. I just wasn't happy with my life. I've grown into a strong young woman. I'm so happy with myself right now. This is what I dreamed of. I fought for this so hard and I was so determined. I have it now and I'm not going to let it slip out."

The 21-year-old receptionist from Los Angeles received the show's grand prize package of a management deal with Elite Model Management; a $100,000 contract with cosmetics company CoverGirl; and a cover story and six-page fashion spread in an issue of Seventeen magazine.

Congratulations!

Sarah Hartshorne was eliminated from America's Next Top Model a few weeks ago.

Her fans - those who appreciated the fact that she wasn't a typically super-skinny model, and wished that Tyra Banks would back up her talk of considering various body types - were disappointed.

Fortunately, though, viewers will get a chance to see more of Hartshorne in the near future.

She's joining The Boston Babydolls, a burlesque performing group based out of Boston, Ma. Her burlesque persona is named Vita Lightly, and on December 15, she'll be performing in "Brrrrlesque" with the group at The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline.

The Boston Babydolls describe themselves as a troupe of performers devoted to burlesque both classic and modern and variety acts. Our members include fan dancers, sword swallowers, jugglers, tassle twirlers, and many more."

The America's Next Top Model star will be performing two solo spots in the show. It looks like she's taking seriously her final episode comments to heart:

"I want to make it clear that it is OK for someone my size to be dressed like that! I don't want girls to see that and say, 'Oh, gee, she's uncomfortable, so I should be uncomfortable,' too. I felt gorgeous! It was really fun and kind of a great role to get into, this dominatrix vampire."

Look out, Tyra Banks, a fellow panel member is after your spotlight!

America's Next Top Model judge - and former British supermodel - Twiggy has agreed to a six-figure deal to write a style guide for women over 40.

The 58-year-old model and actress is writing "Those Fab Forties, Fifties and Sixties," a book offering advice to older women about updating their image with the proper makeup and skin care.

Louise Moore, managing director of Penguin's Michael Joseph imprint, predicts the book will be a best-seller when it is released next June.

"Twiggy is as beautiful a woman in her 50s as she was in her 20s, and has been at the forefront of the fashion industry since she was a 1960s supermodel," Moore said.

"This book will act as a practical, essential, indispensable guide to how to rethink your style and carry it through the decades, find what suits you best, source new skincare and makeup tricks, and incorporates Twiggy's in-depth philosophy on what makes women truly stylish."

Jael Strauss, a former America's Next Top Model finalist, has filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against two men, including her former talent agent, who allegedly published racy photographs of her without her permission.

According to the lawsuit, the pictures were taken when Strauss was 16 and ended up in a book called Beautiful: Nudes by Marc Baptiste. Some of the shots that originally ended up on the cutting room floor were posted on the Internet and their distribution was enhanced once Strauss made it onto the hit CW reality series, the suit alleges.

Baptiste, who is also responsible for the 2003 tome Intimate: Nudes by Marc Baptiste, photographed Strauss in 2000 at locales in Inglewood and at Malibu's Surf Rider Beach. The Detroit native was as naked in some of the shots as Heidi Klum nude in Arena magazine.

Strauss, who finished fifth earlier this year on Top Model's eighth cycle after Tyra Banks decided that her looks couldn't compensate for her brash personality, alleges that her ex-agent, Christopher Donahue, allowed fellow plaintiff Baptiste to take erotic photos of the then-teenager and then signed off on the book without asking for permission from Strauss' parents.

Also named in the suit are the Millennium Agency, where Donahue works, and Rizzoli/Universe. Strauss is seeking unspecified restitution, as well as punitive and compensatory damages.

In addition to invasion of privacy, Strauss claims that she wasn't paid for the use of her pictures and is also suing for theft of image and unjust enrichment. The aspiring catwalker also accuses Baptiste of trying to seduce her after a photo session.

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If former America's Next Top Model winner and radio host Adrianne Curry, a.k.a. Mrs. Peter Brady, ever decides on a career change, she's apparently got a knack for pole dancing. Hey, it could be worse.

The celebrity gossip site TMZ spotted the lovely Adrienne Curry grinding away on a stripper pole this weekend at the Giantto and Von Dutch Watch Showcase party at Light Nightclub at the Bellagio in Las Vegas...

She's a natural! Let's see Jaslene Gonzalez do that!