As a professional masseuse, Kiki Lin usually soothes the clients she serves.

But her actions against a former lover have sent his blood pressure soaring.

Lin claims local entrepreneur Nico Santucci broke a promise to marry her and bilked her out of thousands of dollars she loaned him for business ventures. She's filed a lawsuit against the flamboyant businessman, alleging breach of contract.

But Lin has also appealed to the court of public opinion. In what she characterizes as a quest to find other people who have dealt with Santucci, she has funded several print ads and distributed fliers to residents of the Las Vegas Country Club.

In one published ad, Lin cast Santucci as a gigolo who had preyed on many women for money.

"She's bringing my life into the toilet," an outraged Santucci yelled during a telephone interview.

"She wants the public to believe that there are a lot of people that have been robbed by me � it's not true," he said. "I don't even have a parking ticket. ... It's unfortunate she thinks the only way to get back at me is with this campaign."

Santucci, a nightclub impresario, restaurateur and confidante of pop star Michael Jackson and his family, has been spotted by society observers dating stunning women and cruising Las Vegas in Ferrari sports cars.

Lin, a South Korean citizen whose real name is Chin Hsuan Lin Razo, said she met Santucci in 1999 when he requested a professional massage.

The encounter, according to Lin, soon blossomed into romance.

In one ad Lin placed in City Life, which is now published by Stephens Media, owner of the Review-Journal, Lin said she was impressed by Santucci's penthouse apartment that was worth millions. She also claimed Santucci asked her to bear his child.

In another ad, Lin wrote that she drained her savings account of $47,000 in February 2003 to give Santucci money to open C2K nightclub at The Venetian.

A month later, Lin said, she caught Santucci cheating on her and demanded that he return the money. Lin said Santucci agreed to pay her $200 a month.

She claimed she poured $78,000 into the deal and was promised a share of the profits.

Lin had confidence in Santucci, she said in one of her ads, because he had run clubs at large Strip resorts.

No contracts were ever drawn up, Lin said. She claimed to have handwritten notes by Santucci agreeing to pay her back.

Santucci acknowledged having a "personal relationship" with Lin intermittently between 2002 and 2004, but denies owing her any money.

"During that time (2002-2004), there were no actions between Santucci and Kiki that resulted in any form of indebtedness," Santucci's attorney, Harold Gewerter, wrote in court documents filed in District Court.

Santucci has filed a countersuit against Lin, seeking monetary damages and asserting that her public attacks amounted to defamation.

Some people perceive him as a playboy, he said, but he expects to be vindicated in court.

"I'm a young guy that has had some good fortune with women, but it's a big difference between being that and a gigolo. It's a big line," Santucci said. "They've run these ads for eight weeks. Where are all of my victims?"