LOS ANGELES- Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has sued a Nevada strip club for using a picture of her face to promote itself on the Web as “The Friendliest Topless Cabaret in Reno.”

Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar for her role as the murderous cabaret singer Velma Kelly in “Chicago,” sued The Spice House after learning that she was featured with “partially nude women engaged in various sexually explicit poses,” according to the federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles.

The suit said Zeta-Jones had never been to The Spice House and did not want her “highly valuable image and persona” to be used as an endorsement.

Kent Wallace, owner of The Spice House, said his Web designer got the photo from a “royalty free” Web site without recognizing the face, and claimed he took it down as soon as Zeta-Jones’ lawyers contacted him last October.

“We are just shocked and bemused by this,” Wallace told Reuters on Monday. “She is a big double-D and we are just B cups. She ought to pick on someone her own size.”

Despite the lawsuit’s demand for damages of at least $75,000, Wallace said he and his dancers welcomed the attention and were “having fun with it.”

One of the club’s dancers has renamed herself Catherine “Ta Ta” Jones, and Wallace plans to hold a Halloween contest asking patrons to “come dressed as your favorite brunette star.”

E! Online reports: Catherine Zeta-Jones is no friend of “Reno’s friendliest topless cabaret.”

The movie star has sued the people-pleasing Nevada club known as the Spice House for posting her image on its Website.

The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday in Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press.

Club spokesman Kent Wallace called the litigation “frivolous.”

“We haven’t even been served,” Wallace said Monday. “We found out like the rest of the world–on the AP wire service.

According to Wallace, the lawsuit is a mismatched battle between a powerful celebrity and a little happy-hour-hosting adult club that was never looking for a fight.

A call seeking comment from Zeta-Jones’ attorney was not immediately returned Monday.

The Spice House’s brush with the Oscar-winning Chicago actress came last October when the club’s Website was undergoing a redesign, Wallace said.

In search of a “fetching female face” for the menu bar, the Webmaster trolled sites advertising royalty-free art, and came across a “very sexy” half-body shot of a woman with “fabulous bare shoulders [and] barely concealed bosom,” Wallace said.

The image was cropped to the woman’s face, and put up on the site–a site that on a “good week,” as Wallace told it, “gets 600 views.”

About two weeks later, Zeta-Jones’ attorneys informed the Spice House that its “fetching female face” belonged to their client. Wallace said that was the first time the club made the connection between the image and the actress.

“Our Webmaster is not star-struck. Maybe if it was the face of Daryle Lamonica,” Wallace said, referring to the old Oakland Raiders quarterback Daryle “the Mad Bomber” Lamonica.

Once alerted to the Zeta-Jones connection, the site removed the image “within hours” of receiving the letter from her attorneys, Wallace said.

In her lawsuit, per the Associated Press, Zeta-Jones claims the picture made it seem as if she “endorsed or approved of the [Website’s] sexually explicit content.”

“We’re not a porno site by any stretch of the imagination,” Wallace said. “I don’t know–Jesus. We’re fans of her. We all love her. We find this to be an ironic tragedy.”

Wallace said the club, which bills itself as the “friendliest topless cabaret” in all of Reno, initially didn’t think to use pictures of its own dancers on the Website because of the heavy turnover rate in the topless-dancing field.

“You put up a girl, and a week later she’s out of the business, or she’s married,” Wallace said.

In the wake of the Zeta-Jones affair, however, the Spice House site now features shots of its own performers in the menu bar.

Zeta-Jones’ lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and a formal order barring the Spice House from using her image on its site again, the AP said.

No stranger to litigation, in just the past year Michael Douglas’ younger half has won a legal-fees judgment against Britain’s Hello! magazine in a protracted battle over the publication of wedding photos and threatened to sic attorneys on media outlets to quash any notion she was on the Atkins diet. She also has frequented the courtroom to face off against an alleged stalker.

The target of her latest lawsuit or no, life–and dancing business–goes on at the Spice House.

Come Sunday night, the club is hosting a Halloween party. According to Wallace, male and female patrons alike are being encouraged to come dressed as their “favorite brunette actress.”

Whoever that may be.