We’re not those kind of gals!
Two buxom strippers go on trial on prostitution charges in Manhattan today, insisting that while they might shake it, they certainly didn’t market it.
Porn star Alexia Moore and her co-defendant, topless dancer Falynn Rodriguez, both 27, face a possible 90-day jail sentence if convicted. But they’re willing to risk that in a bid to clear their names and save their reputations, their lawyers say.
“Just like thousands of girls in New York City, they are exotic dancers,” said Salvatore Strazzulo, lawyer for Moore, whose real name is Cassandra Malandri.
“I’d say 100 percent of these misdemeanor prostitution cases don’t go to trial — they end in plea deals or get dismissed,” Strazzulo went on, noting how unusual this trial will be.
Adam Moser, Rodriguez’s lawyer, agreed.
“This trial is about as unusual as it gets for girls with no record.” Moore and Rodriguez were busted in a July 2008 raid at their place of business — Big Daddy Lou’s Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street.
Cops busted 21 employees during the raid, which netted more than a dozen alleged hookers, along with husband and wife proprietors Louis and Betty Posner, and seized bulk-quantities of condoms and sex toys — including something listed on a police property voucher as a “masturbation machine.”
An undercover cop is set to testify that Moore and Rodriguez not only did more than jiggle, they charged exorbitant prices to do so.
They allegedly struck a deal for $5,000 — for a threesome with “Undercover No. 2948” off-site and at a later date.
“They thought it was a joke!” said Moser. “I mean, $5,000!”
The strippers played along, but never took the banter seriously, and by the time they were arrested one month later, no sex had ever transpired, the lawyers note.
Undercover 2948 didn’t record the conversations, so it’ll be his word against the women’s.
Both women rejected plea deals offering no jail, no probation, no community service, and just a conviction on disorderly conduct — a violation that would not result in a criminal record. But prosecutors had one condition — the women would have to confess to being prostitutes, thereby implicating the Posners, who are awaiting trial.
“They’re using these two girls — forcing them to go to trial just so they can get to the Posners,” Moser said.