Bettina Wulff, wife of former German President Christian Wulff, claims she has been defamed by Google’s automatically-generated suggested search terms “bettina wulff escort” and “bettina wulff prostituierte”.

Ms Wulff maintains that she has never been a prostitute, and wants the imputation that she has been scrubbed from the search terms that are suggested when people enter her name in by Google’s search engine.

The New York Daily News reports that rumors Wulff had an X-rated past have circulated since 2006, and are believed to have been spread in order to do damage to her husband’s political career.