LOS ANGELES (AP) - A photographer accused of trying to extort $3.3 million US from Cameron Diaz for pictures taken before she became famous must stay jailed or pay a high bail amount. Superior Court Judge Ann Jones on Wednesday said John Rutter of Los Angeles must remain jailed in place of $250,000 bail. In a related matter, Diaz has sued Rutter in civil court to keep the photographs from being published. That case begins Friday in Santa Monica Superior Court before Judge Alan B. Haber.

Rutter, 41, faces felony counts of attempted extortion, attempted grand theft, perjury and forgery. Last month, Rutter was denied release on his own recognizance and a court commissioner ordered him to stay away from the 31-year-old actress.

The photographs taken around 1992 are being held in a safe deposit box. Diaz's lawyers have declined to describe the photos and are asking for an injunction to keep them from being made public.

Rutter has said he contacted Diaz's lawyers on June 23 to offer them first right of refusal for the photos before trying to sell them to media outlets. Soon afterward, he said, authorities raided his apartment and seized the photos. He was arrested Aug. 12.

A publicist for Diaz has said the actress didn't sign a photo release at the private modelling session, and a release that Rutter produced is a forgery.

Rutter's mother, Mary Rutter, said after the hearing that her son was "not trying to hurt Cameron Diaz. Somehow, we have to see justice done."

Diaz, co-star of the Charlie's Angels movies, Gangs of New York and There's Something About Mary, is listed in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records as Hollywood's highest paid actress with earnings of $42.2 million US in 2001.