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Fashion photographers swarmed into the Brooklyn Law School library for a racy photo shoot in the middle of the day as stunned students preparing for tests stared in disbelief — and then stormed out, a crew member told The Post.
A handful of students were cracking the books during spring break when the Diesel crew of about 50 people turned up last March and took over the building for a steamy shoot consisting of near-naked models writhing among the bookshelves and on library tables.
“They were upset,” said Chime Day Serra, 36, a Los Angeles-based set designer who flew to New York to work on the shoot.
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He said about three or four students “complained a little bit to us, but mostly to the intermediary from the school — and I guess our agreement with the school trumped them.”
The intermediary, Brooklyn Law School events director Chris Gibbons, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Serra, the son of J. Tony Serra — the legendary ponytailed, pot-smoking criminal-defense attorney famous for fighting the government and celebrated in the 1989 film “True Believer” — said he felt bad for the students.
“Their resistance was warranted in a way,” he said. “You have to feel for those law students, we did take over part of their study area for a time.
“They complained and then packed up and left,” he said. “They were cursing at the situation.”
The shoot itself lasted about 10 hours, Serra said. Afterward, the Diesel crew feasted on pizza.
“We offered some to the students and people at the front desk,” he said, but didn’t recall who, if anyone, took them up on their offer.
He said the crew took great pains to make sure none of the school’s identifying marks appeared in the pictures.
In one shot, a woman crouches over a man lying face down on a table covered in legal tomes, with the rear of her pink panties bearing the words, “Today I am your nurse.”
Underneath her, the back of a man’s briefs decree: “Today I am your patient.”
Brooklyn Law School officials say they are outraged by the provocative photo shoot, the content of which didn’t come to light until last week, after the steamy photos turned up on the clothing company’s Web site.
Diesel did not return a request for comment.