LONDON: A former reality TV star has pleaded not guilty to the murder of adult film actress Felicia Tang Lee.

America's Sexiest Bachelor star Brian Randone is charged with torturing and suffocating Lee in the home they shared in Monrovia earlier this month (11Sep09), but, at an arraignment on Tuesday (29Sep09), the 45-year-old Christian minister insisted he was innocent.

Randone called the police to report that his partner was not breathing and was arrested and charged with her death days later.

Lee appeared in films like Hotel Decadence. She was 31.