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Chad Ocho Cinco writes a lot of checks to the NFL for the many fines he receives. Turns out he writes them to random “promotional models” as well. Now, I’m not saying I buy this… but here’s the rundown.

Over a week ago, a Florida-based promotional model named Courtney Williams (her business card is pictured above) sent out a mass tweet to a variety of gossip bloggers, magazines, and radio/TV personalities. The tweet linked to a photo of a check that she claims was written by the man formerly known as Chad Johnson. The check is from Ocho Cinco Inc. based in Davie, Florida and appears to be for either $1000 or $1500. Unfortunately, you can’t really tell if the check is real and the picture quality is poor. Here are the two messages that Williams attached to pictures of the check.

@ogchocinco @vivaciousmodels @tyrabanks @dimepiecemag @hiphophoneys @llgirlblog @perezhilton @tmzonline Warning to everyone Ochocinco aka Esteban aka Mr Chad Johnson Can’t not pay for it!!! He write’s BOUNCING CHECKs! ATTENTION: All Bitches follow tha rul

@wendyshow Hey Wendy “How U Doin!” Here’s a HOTT Topic for your show. A Professional athletic @ogochocinco who wrote a bad check. W@ho know people of his caliber won’t have money in a bank account to cover a check that was written by Mr. Chad Johnson of t

Apparently, she doesn’t grasp the concept of the character limit on twitter.  It’s unclear why she was being paid by Chad Ocho Cinco. I’m guessing it was “private entertainment” as regular promo models aren’t making a grand per night. Also, legitimate models have portfolios AKA “books” and typically use an agent to book appearances/shoots.  Conversely, prostitutes have business cards.  I did more digging and found out that Williams works for a company called Vivacious Models. Here are a sampling of the images on her MySpace page.

The Young, Black, and Fabulous says Ocho Cinco is also being accused of writing bad checks to other girls in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and New Orleans. However, there’s no hard evidence to back that up at this point.

So what’s legit and what’s not? I’d say Chad Johnson could very well be visiting ladies of the night. But I seriously doubt his checks are bouncing. Judging by the way Williams tried to blow this up on twitter, she may have just been looking for 15 minutes of fame. You can see more of Courtney’s modeling pictures on her MySpace page.