LATEST: Sexy Hollywood actor Jude Law reportedly got an exotic dancer pregnant two years before his sensational split from older wife Sadie Frost.

ERICA COBURN, who works on the Chicago Stock Exchange, claims the handsome star offered her $102,000 (GBP65,000) not to keep the child.

She tells British tabloid THE SUNDAY MAIL, "Jude appears to be an English gentleman but he cheated on his wife with me. He said he'd look after me but he never followed through with what he promised. I feel sorry for his wife."

Single-mum Erica claims she enjoyed a two-month affair with the TALENTED MR RIPLEY star, who she met while working as an exotic dancer at the CRAZY HORSE TOO lap-dancing club in Chicago.

She says, "Jude offered to pay for my time but I refused. I was attracted to him. He said, 'Can you leave with me?' I said it was against club rules and told him to get a cab and wait around the corner."

Erica adds. "He was charming and funny. He was very affectionate. He told me repeatedly he and his wife had separated. She usually travelled with him, he said, but they were taking a break from each other. I had no reason to doubt him. We'd see each other regularly and most of the time we were alone we had sex."

In June 2001 Erica found herself pregnant, and Jude distanced himself, eventually setting up a bank account for Erica and the baby -although she eventually decided to abort the Cold Mountain actor's baby.

Erica admits, "Jude still doesn't know if I had the baby or not. That is what I find incredible, he doesn't even care."