Zoe West (Han Von Rittern)
This model had a brush with the law yesterday — when she posed in Times Square dressed only in paint.
Zoe West was a human canvas for flesh-obsessed painter Andy Golub, who began touching up his initially topless model at 2:30 p.m.
At about 4 p.m., West shed her G-string and also went bottomless, turning the Crossroads of the World into the Naked City, and bringing cops an hour later.
West said she knew Golub’s project, at West 44th Street and Broadway, could land her in the pokey — but she was willing to make the sacrifice for art.
“I don’t believe there is truly anything wrong with what I did and with what he was doing,” West told The Post last night after she was released.
West, 21, of upstate Kingston, said cops dropped all charges, so she’s as free as a jay bird.
Cops confirmed that West had been taken into custody, but said records of the incident had been sealed. Prosecutors couldn’t immediately find a record of pending charges against her.
This is the second summer arrest connected to Golub’s art. On July 30, he was busted on public-lewdness charges when two of his models stripped down to their birthday suits in Times Square.
Golub admitted he knew yesterday’s stunt could end with West being detained.
“I explained all this to my model, so she was completely aware,” he said.
Additional reporting by Tim Perone