Gentlemen’s club Scores refuses to drop its lawsuit against a prominent New Jersey doctor over a disputed $135,000 bill — even though police say the bachelor cardiologist was one of four men drugged and ripped off in a strip-club scam.
“In light of the allegations, it’s surprising that they have not dismissed the claim,” Dr. Zyad Younan’s attorney Michael Weinstein told The Post.
“Certainly [the lawsuit] has impacted his reputation,” Weinstein said.
Scores’ attorney Alison Blaine countered that despite the criminal case, she believes the heart doc’s big-spending sprees at the West 28th Street adult playhouse last November were voluntary.
“He was at the club three times,” Blaine said. “He was drugged three times?” she said in disbelief.
But a law enforcement source confirmed that Younan was indeed doped on at least three separate occasions before he figured out the scheme.
A spokeswoman for the Holmdel, NJ, resident, who practices at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, said she could not reveal details about the intricate scam.
“We’re working closely with law enforcement and we’re not at liberty to share everything we’d like to share — yet,” Karen Kessler teased.
But she said the six-figure tab, charged to Younan’s American Express card, was forgiven by the credit card company.
Blaine signed an agreement with Weinstein allowing his client extra time to answer the civil claim in court — just two days after feds busted Karina Pascucci for spiking the doc’s drink, taking him to Scores and then fleecing him for drinks, lap dances, tips and private room rentals.
Pascucci was part of a crew of brunette strippers who targeted rich victims including a hedge fund manager, a real estate agent and a Wall Street banker, according to officials.
The quartet allegedly picked up the men in hotel bars, sedated them with tranquilizing drugs like cocaine and ketamine, drove them to Scores and a Queens jiggle joint, stripped them of their credit cards and forged signatures on hefty tabs.
If and when the men protested, they were blackmailed with photos of themselves in racy, compromising positions, officials said.