Mickenzie Dippenworth and Christine Scafa were Fashion Institute of Technology roommates — barely out of their teens — who longed to party like celebrities.
Undercover No. 5732 and Undercover No. 20978 were handsome, muscle-bound men flashing cash in the city’s hottest nightclubs.
Behind the velvet ropes at Marquis, Home and Mansion, the two officers — “Chris” and “Jack” — sprang repeatedly for drinks and bragged of their fame as “Ultimate Fighters.” They complimented the women’s cleavage; they boasted of their penis size.
But by the time this monthlong flirtation came crashing down in December, the two women were in handcuffs, on charges they’d repeatedly sold small bags of cocaine to the two men they’d thought were their friends.
Now, the two women are crying foul.
They were “seduced,” the pair claims in recently filed court papers.
Scafa, 22, of tony Princeton Junction, and Dippenworth, 21, of Bel Air, Md., are charged with selling the undercovers a total 11 grams of cocaine for $1,280.
But until now, little has been divulged about the two roommates’ allegedly just-short-of-literal seduction by their two burly betrayers.
The two men gave Dippenworth drinks, bragging they had paid $1,000 for bottle service, Dippenworth’s lawyer, Michael Elbaz, wrote. Then, at 1:30 a.m., one of the undercovers “initiated a request for cocaine.” When Dippenworth gave him the little left of her stash, the undercover “literally pushed $100 to the defendant and insisted that she take the money,” Elbaz wrote.
The women are hoping their judge will believe that this description and others will show they acted merely as extensions, or “agents,” of the undercovers. They’re due back in court April 27.