Lawrence Taylor (Daniel Shapiro)
Disgraced Giant legend Lawrence Taylor admitted yesterday that he doesn’t mind paying for female companionship — because he’s lost a few steps off his game.
“I know I’m 50-something years old,” LT testified in Manhattan federal court, where he’s being sued for allegedly forcing himself on an unwilling, underage girl-for-hire.
“I still like the chase, but I like to stack the deck a little in my favor,” said Taylor, 53.
“I like to enjoy somebody’s company, but I don’t want to work too hard,” he added.
The Pro Football Hall of Famer also said he couldn’t help himself when a 16-year-girl awoke him in a Rockland County hotel room, claiming to be 19.
Taylor said bedding Cristina Fierro “was one of my options” after a friend who’d sent him numerous prostitutes in the past arranged the early-morning visit.
“After seeing her and looking at her — and I thought she was cute — that didn’t seem to be a bad option,” Taylor said.
“At the time, she was too sexy, yes.”
Fierro’s lawyers called Taylor to the witness stand on the second day of a civil trial at which she’s accusing Taylor of forcing himself on her during their May 6, 2010, encounter.
He was sentenced to six years’ probation after pleading guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute for the $300 tryst, which Fierro blames on a pimp who beat her into submission.
Taylor’s testimony included a lengthy and graphic discussion of his attempt to perform oral sex on Fierro, with LT saying: “I went as far as she would let me go, until she said, ‘No.’
“Which I didn’t have a problem with, simply because a lot of island girls don’t like that,” he added, after noting that Fierro told him she was Dominican.
He also admitted that when he later had sex with Fierro, she complained that he was too big.
Lawyer Nathan Goldberg, a partner of famed feminist attorney Gloria Allred, confronted Taylor with several passages from his 2003 memoir, “LT: Over the Edge,” including his admitted “prodigious appetite for sex” and the boast that he kept “dial-a-bitch” on his speed-dial.
But Taylor denied an accusation that he called another of Fierro’s lawyers, Mariann Meier Wang, a “bitch” at the end of a recent deposition.
Judge Barbara Jones told the four-woman, four-man jury to disregard that statement.
Taylor is scheduled to return to the witness stand when the trial resumes this morning.