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Vince Shlomi, ShamWow pitchman, sued by a former employee, say reports

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(CBS) - Vince Shlomi, the man who appears in infomercials for the all absorbent towel ShamWow, is now being sued by a model who worked for him after he allegedly stalked and groped her, reports say.

Jennifer Kosinski, 23, worked as a customer service rep and personal assistant for Shlomi from July 2009 to April 2010. She alleges that he stalked and emotionally abused her, forced her to be at his constant "beck and call," made sexual advances and offered to buy her eggs, according to the New York Daily News.

In the suit Kosinski states that Shlomi offered her "$20,000 and a paid one month vacation for her parents to travel the world in exchange for her eggs," the suit says, the Daily News reported. 

Shlomi later ended up firing her after she refused to show him a text message from someone he suspected was a man, the suit states.

Kosinski's suit seeks unpaid wages and attorney's fees. She filed the lawsuit in federal court in Miami on April, 1, the paper reported.

Shlomi, 46, was arrested in February 2009 for repeatedly punching a hooker after she bit his mouth. He wasn't charged in the incident.

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