Claudia Charriez
HEAT’S ON: Taylor Murphy, with transsexual squeeze Wanda Batista yesterday, still faces accusations by his ex, Claudia Charriez. (
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He may never handle a hose again — at least not as a city firefighter.
FDNY calendar hunk Taylor Murphy burst into tears and then ran to the arms of his glamorous, brunette, pre-op transsexual girlfriend, after a Manhattan jury rendered a partial verdict yesterday convicting him of the felony of criminal contempt in the bizarre War of the Hoses assault trial.
“He’s a sweetheart,” the current gender-bent girlfriend, Wanda Batista, 32, told The Post, standing by her fireman. “He’s my giant teddy bear, and I just want to take him back home.”
Murphy’s jury continues deliberations today on the remaining charges of felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault. The beefy former “Mr. March” is on the hook for allegedly beating, biting and choking his previous girlfriend, blonde pre-op transsexual Claudia Charriez during an August 2011 fight in their Midtown hotel-room bed.
The peroxide-blond Charriez and the newly brunette Batista — both of whom have active online “she-male” escort sites — have contended for the affections of Murphy, a bisexual attracted to men who live as women.
Charriez told jurors that Murphy flew into a rage when she called him a “faggot.” Defense lawyer Jason Berland countered that Charriez exaggerated what had been a mere love-tussle of jealousy.
“I’m done! Call your girl!” Charriez texted Murphy after the alleged assault. “Go to your trannies and slits,” she had texted in March. “You were never my boyfriend. I hate that I ever loved you . . . You think ur playing me but ur not — I know ur with ur girl.”
“He was her Ken,” Batista said of Murphy and Charriez. “She doesn’t like it because I took her Ken. I’m the Barbie now.”
The jury convicted Murphy of violating an order of protection by reaching out in more than 1,000 calls, e-mails and texts to Charriez after she pressed assault charges. He could get anywhere from no jail time to four years in prison and could get booted from the FDNY.
“I’m obsessive-compulsive,” Murphy told The Post of all those phone calls he made to Charriez — as many as 100 in a single day. “I’m in therapy for it.”
The nine-woman, three-man jury also convicted Murphy of misdemeanor criminal mischief for breaking the blonde’s cellphone.