This is one leak Julian Assange probably wishes never got out.
A series of bizarre, lovesick emails the WikiLeaks founder wrote in attempt to woo a 19-year-old woman -- two years before the controversial website was founded -- have been revealed.
The young woman, identified only as Elizabeth, and the Australian met in a bar in Melbourne in 2004, according to Gawker.com. She said Assange, then 33, walked her home, kissed her goodnight and the two exchanged e-mail addresses.
"He just seemed kind of quiet and nerdy," she told the website. "I didn't think he was sexy or anything."
Elizabeth, who was studying physics and mathematics at the University of Melbourne, became scared when Assange somehow got her phone and license plate numbers. He wouldn't tell her how he got the information, and she rebuffed his offers to get together again.
Assange then became upset and started a persistent email campaign. "Your reaction to my phone call lacked dignity and has stung me," he wrote, according to Gawker.
The WikiLeaks boss was freed on bail Thursday in London and is fighting accusations that he raped one woman in Sweden and assaulted another. He has been blasted by many for leaking secret government cables, and said he expects the U.S. to charge him with spying.
Elizabeth claims she saved the emails from Assange but not her responses to him.
Assange began to wistfully recall their first meeting in subsequent emails.
"When I first wrote the heat of your breast pressed against me was still vivid in my mind," he wrote. She responded with an email with the subject line "don't call me."
In his last plea, Assange calls Elizabeth "hard above the neck." He adds, "You pulled a tiny petal off my world just when I thought you were to add one but all around in the meadow where I shall again dance and skip and sing till some fool girl should brush my wing."
On Friday, on NBC's "Today," Assange called the recent sexual assault crimes as a "very successful smear campaign" that has been waged against him. He maintained his innocence and vowed to release more secret documents.
"People are beginning to wonder…Where's the evidence?"
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