"I don't know how you'd locate News of the World readers, " she explains, " but anyone can see the advertisers".

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Malaysian-born Sarah Marbeck, 29, claimed in the News of the World that she'd had a two-year affair with Beckham -- married to former Spice Girl Victoria -- after meeting the player in Singapore in 2001.

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The Kazakhstani government agrees, running four-page ads in The New York Times and U.S. News and World Report and commercials on CNN and the local ABC affiliate in Washington, D.

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