A dapper fiend was busted yesterday for allegedly molesting several women in Manhattan’s toniest neighborhoods, authorities said.
Karl Vanderwoude, 26, who works for Madison Avenue private equity firm MVision, was nabbed at his Park Slope, Brooklyn, apartment and charged with groping women in Greenwich Village, lower Manhattan and the Upper East Side, police sources said.
In the most recent case, Vanderwoude allegedly grabbed a 22-year-old woman’s butt and then stuck a camera under her skirt to film her as she exited the Chambers Street subway station on March 30.
The sicko also approached a 19-year-old woman on Feb. 27 on Second Avenue near East 67th Street, grabbed her butt and took off, cops added.
A day earlier, he grabbed a woman’s crotch and butt on Varick Street near King Street, police said.
Arraigned last night, Vanderwoude was charged with forcible touching, unlawful surveillance and sexual abuse — but was released on his own recognizance.
“My client is a 26-year-old gentleman,” said defense attorney Lori Cohen, who also claimed that Vanderwoude holds weekly Bible meetings at his apartment.
“His job wants him back,” Cohen added.
Vanderwoude hails from Holland and played water polo and swam in high school.
He attended Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida, a Christian school, and at present lives in a basement apartment near Prospect Park.
Rebecca Harshbarger and Laura Italiano