In the complaint that accompanied her suit in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, Lane and her attorneys allege that the station invaded her privacy and was involved in spreading malicious gossip about the popular news anchor - then destroyed her reputation and her future career opportunities in her firing and the way it was handled.
Lane seeks unspecified damages, saying her "reputation has been irreparably and wrongfully destroyed" by the station, formally known as KYW-TV, and the other defendants.
The complaint tells some of the 36-year-old Lane's saga from her perspective for the first time, reading like the movie treatment for an old-fashioned morality taleabout a young woman who gets a career break in the big city only to get dragged down by sex, scandal, jealousy and gossip.
For example:
* About those bikini pictures, the ones e-mailed to well-known sportscaster Rich Eisen, intercepted by Eisen's wife, and then reported about in the New York Post in May 2007.
The complaint says the pictures were not ones she "actually wished to disseminate to anyone, because they were taken without makeup, her hair was a mess, and she did not view the pictures as flattering." She said she sent the e-mail to Eisen while they were speaking on the phone because the sportscaster wanted to see if he recognized one of Lane's friends.
* It portrays Lane's 2004 TV appearance on "Dr. Phil" - discussing her failed first marriage in Florida - as a humiliating experience that she claimed was forced upon her by her CBS 3 bosses in a bid to boost ratings. It says she was so "mortified" that she begged them not to air the segment, a request that was denied.
