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Sorry that this happened to you DWB...
As you now know, unless you have a model under contract (and even that is not always 100% ironclad), they can walk on you.
Besides the shady manuevering of Island Dollars, the model should bear some of the heat for this too. That's pretty ungrateful of her to do this behind your back.
I experienced a similar situation where I invested over $10,000 into a model (including paying for her boob job), only to have her go over to launch a solo site with another webmaster (whom I had given lots of free advice to), after I shot 30 plus sets of her with the clear intention of launching a solo site.
My advice is to launch your site tomorrow. Flood the net with your content. Recoup whatever you can, and when their site launches, use the content of her to promote your other sites - I mean saturate it so much that no one will want to join the other version of the site.
I haven't heard Island Dollars side of the story, but I doubt that you would put your own rep on the line by talking trash without warrant.
If I were Island Dollars, I would be putting a pretty damn good lucrative deal together to make it up to you, instead of wasting time trying to argue.
There is no reason that you can't still work things out now that you have laid your cards on the table, although in hindsight, it might have been better to sleep on it for a night or two, and then try to cut some mutually acceptable deal with them.
It's tough to be patient in the heat and passion of the moment, but often times it proves to be the best course to follow.
Good luck to you bro,
ADG Webmaster
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