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(The Associated Press)

Carlo Dellaverson

NBC News producer Carlo Dellaverson was arrested Tuesday for secretly creating a sex tape with his former girlfriend, and uploading it to a popular porn site.

According to a report from The New York Post, Dellaverson, 30, hid a camera in his Greenwich Village apartment and recorded the video on February 14, Valentine's Day, without his then-girlfriend's knowledge. Shortly thereafter he uploaded the video to XTube, a Dutch porn site with over 9 million users.

On September 4th, nearly seven months later, the 29-year-old woman discovered the video on Dellaverson's computer, Jezebel reported. She dumped the NBC digital producer and moved out, but was able to get him to admit in an email that he had posted the video online. She immediately filed a police report.

Police arrested Dellaverson on Tuesday on charges of disseminating unlawful surveillance and harassment, the Post reported. He was charged with unlawful surveillance in Manhattan Criminal court and released without bail.

"We are maintaining our innocence and we will contest these charges vigorously," Charles Abercrombie, Dellaverson's lawyer, told the Post.

NBC told Gawker in a statement, "We are taking the matter very seriously, and will determine the appropriate course of action once we have learned the facts."

Dellaverson has not made any statement on the matter. His most recent tweet was on Monday before the arrest: