Another lap dancer wiggles free!
The second of two strippers accused of servicing the laps they danced upon was cleared of all charges yesterday, ending a wacky Manhattan prostitution trial.
“I knew I did nothing wrong!” porn star Alexia Moore tearily said after court. “I just had to prove it!”
Back before the 2008 police raid at Big Daddy Lou’s Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street, Moore had been famous for her Thursday-night girl-on-girl lesbian floor shows with dancing partner Falynn Rodriguez.
But an undercover vice cop — posing as “Ricky,” an international Mexican fabric trader — had claimed that for the right price, the two would offer even more entertainment.
During a weeklong misdemeanor trial last week, Ricky took the stand to describe reclining with the undies-clad Moore and Rodriguez on a red-draped bed in the club’s Champagne Room — a dim and dowdy little hovel with curtained “walls” hung from 2-by-4s.
Ricky testified that it was there, after a lap dance, with Rodriguez at her side, that Moore offered him a threesome for $5,000 — but at a later date and a never-agreed-upon location, with only the promise that if he e-mailed her through her porn site, she’d “get back to me.”
No such e-mail was ever sent, Ricky conceded in testimony.
Criminal Court Judge ShawnDya Simpson dismissed the case against Rodriguez outright on Friday.
Yesterday, ruling on Moore — whose real name is Cassandra Malandri — the judge declared, “The court finds the defendant not guilty.”
“She’s just an exotic dancer — that’s what she does,” defense lawyer Salvatore Strazzullo said after court.
Moore now says her dancing days are over.
She said she’s going to start “a new chapter, a new beginning — a normal job . . . Anything to do with animals.”
To which one of the photographers camped outside Manhattan Criminal Court quipped: “I’d buy that video.”
Source: SCN Jan 28, 2010