Dosvedanya, Anna: Sexy Spy Didn't Want to Leave US

(July 9) -- It may be dosvedanya for Anna Chapman, but we probably haven't heard the last word from the sexy Russian spy.

Her lawyer says she is going to resume her business career. And reportedly she is considering suing her ex-husband, who divulged details about their bedroom romps and shared topless photos of her with a London tabloid.

As planes carrying 14 freed prisoners apparently exchanged their cargo in the largest U.S.-Russian spy swap since the Cold War, attorney Robert Baum said his client will pursue her online real estate business in her mother country.

"Anna Chapman is exactly who she says she is. She's a professional businesswoman who established a business in Moscow and brought that business to New York," Baum said on NBC's "Today" this morning.

"She expects to re-establish her business, which began in Moscow, and hopefully continue that business and perhaps take it to another country," he said. The 28-year-old came to the U.S. in 2006, when her marriage ended.

On Thursday, Chapman and nine others sat in a federal courtroom in New York and pleaded guilty to failing to register as foreign agents. But while Baum did not deny Chapman's guilt, he said the charges were relatively minor compared with the accusations against some of the other spies, which included money laundering.

"She didn't accept any money, she didn't pass any documents. What she did simply was what she was accused of doing -- on a fairly regular basis having laptop communications with a member of the Russian Embassy," he said.

Baum described the spy ring's most visible member as a woman who did little more than dabble in her work as a Russian agent, saying the information she shared was "not any secrets" but "everyday information about this country."

Besides an avid interest in New York real estate, Chapman may decide to pick up another American tradition: She could sue ex-husband Alex for spreading "false" information about her family, Baum told the Russian newspaper Tvoi Den, according to the London Telegraph.

Baum said he told Chapman's sister that his client could bring a lawsuit against her ex. "She asked me whether I could sue him for making false statements about her. I replied that 'yes you can,'" he told Tvoi Den.

In an embarrassing interview with the British tabloid News of the World, Alex Chapman said his ex-wife was obsessed with money and social climbing, and claimed her father was a "high-ranking" former member of the KGB. Baum said on "Today" that the Chapman family denies her father was involved in Russian intelligence.

Baum said the Russians have made "no promises" to Chapman and told CBS's "Early Show" today that the agent "would have preferred to stay in the United States," where her business was doing "extremely well."

But the attorney said Chapman wasn't ready to face jail time and made the difficult decision to plead guilty while in solitary confinement.

"I think she was relieved to get it over, and she was very happy about getting out of jail," he told NBC.