Metro

At end of her grope

A former stripper who went from showing her assets to managing those of her clients as the owner of a hedge fund has filed a complaint charging her former bosses with trying to coerce her into sex.

Niki Marx, 24, says her two-month stint at HQ Gentleman’s Club in Hell’s Kitchen was a living hell, thanks to supervisors who couldn’t wait to unzip their pants whenever they got her alone in a room, according to a discrimination complaint filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2008.

“I felt suicidal; I felt like a lowlife person,” Marx said.

This week, Marx filed new papers, claiming club officials found a way to harass her even after firing her: They made public her Social Security and cellphone numbers by including them in their rebuttal to her complaint.

“I’m trying to be as successful as I can. I don’t want to be harassed anymore,” said Marx, who used the money she earned pole dancing to fulfill her Wall Street dream this year.

“She saw exotic dancing as a way to advance her financial career and she was successful in obtaining her goals,” said her lawyer, David Rosenberg.

Just last week, she tweeted, “Bought yesterday RL calls and sold all of them today for a 74% gain.’’

Life was far less sunny for Marx three years ago when, unemployed and desperately in need of cash, she scored a dancing gig at HQ.

Shortly after she was hired in 2008, Marx took a break for a smoke in an alley and a security guard exposed himself to her, her complaint charged.

That same month, a floor manager named Alex barked at her to come into a closed room with him.

When she complied, Alex dropped his drawers and exposed himself, she said.

“I told him that I had swollen tonsils,” the quick-thinking Marx said.

“I made it up to get out of there. He looked at me totally confused and upset. I left the room.”

In October 2008, she claimed, a nasty patron started heckling her and grabbing her breasts — so she slapped him.

She says the general manager, Steve, gave her an ultimatum: “He said, ‘If you want to keep your job, you better get down on your knees [for the patron].’ I had enough and I left.” That same month, the club fired her.

Then she filed the complaint.

Exotic dancing is not an open invitation to unwanted sexual advances,” Rosenberg and co-counsel Michael Borrelli said in a statement.

HQ has denied Marx’s allegations.