Editor brands twins ‘sleazy’

THE owner of an “erotic photography magazine” who is being sued by the Winklevoss twins has shot back at them, claiming that the brothers invested in the glossy mag as a “way to advance their own sleazy agenda” and claims they made “inappropriate requests involving models and celebrities.”

As Page Six first reported, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss served Steve Shaw — the founder and editor-in-chief of nude magazine Treats! — with papers claiming that he had squandered $1.3 million that they had sunk into it.

The “bitcoin billionaire” brothers — who notoriously sued Mark Zuckerberg over the rights to Facebook — started investing in Treats! in 2012 — but claim in the suit that five years later they discovered that Shaw had “mismanaged [their] investment and squandered the funds that were entrusted to the company, under Shaw’s direction.”

On Wednesday, Shaw told Page Six that the complaint “is full of more of the same lies that have characterized the way they have done business with me,” and he denied misappropriating funds.

Shaw said that he looks forward to going to court to “expose their fraudulent business practices,” adding “The world will then see how the twins thought that by investing in Treats! they would be able to use me and Treats! to advance their own sleazy agenda, and once they saw that I would not be complicit in helping them with their inappropriate requests involving models and celebrities, they resorted to the bullying tactics that have made them infamous.”

There has been some overlap between the brothers’ love lives and the magazine’s shoots.

In 2013, Tyler dated model Loris Kraemerh, who appeared in a nude shoot for Treats! in 2012.

Responding to Shaw, Tyler Meade, an attorney for their Winklevoss Capital Management LLC, told us, “This is a baseless and desperate effort by Mr. Shaw to divert attention from his own wrongful conduct. We look forward to meeting him in court, where we have no doubt that we will prevail.”