The 16-year-old hooker whose claims about having sex with ex-Giant Lawrence Taylor led to a rape charge against him actually bragged to a friend about making “easy money” because “I didn’t even have to f— him,” a source told The Post.
The friend, who drove with the hooker to meet Taylor that night, has given a sworn statement that the girl told her immediately afterward that the Hall of Famer merely engaged in masturbation before paying her $300 — not sexual intercourse or oral sex, said the source.
If what the friend saying is true, the source noted, “that clears him of rape-3” — the third-degree rape charge lodged against Taylor, 51, for the May 6 tryst in a Rockland County hotel.
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“This is reasonable doubt,” said the source, noting that there has to be sexual intercourse with an underage person to sustain that felony charge.
The friend — a stripper who lived with the hooker and accused pimp Rasheed Davis in The Bronx — told investigators she has come forward to contradict the hooker’s tale to cops because of “three things: they didn’t have sex, she’s lying, and he’s innocent,” according to the source.
Rockland County prosecutors, who are handling the rape case against Taylor, did not respond to a request for comment.
Taylor’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, declined to comment today.
But after Taylor was freed on $75,000 bond last week Aidala had said L.T. “didn’t have sex with anybody, period.”
The source said the hooker’s friend also has told probers that the girl lied when she told cops that Davis beat her that night because she initially refused to go to Taylor’s room.
In fact, the friend has said, Davis slapped her with an open hand and kicked her because the hooker had told him her sister’s boyfriend had stolen brandy and marijuana from the pimp’s house, according to the source.
And, when a buddy of Taylor’s called to ask Davis for a hooker for the former Giant, “She was excited to make some money,” according to the source.
Davis, the hooker and the friend then drove to a Holiday Inn in Suffern, NY, where Taylor had rented a suite. In the hooker’s purse was a bottle of brandy — given to her by the friend — that was later found by cops in Taylor’s room, the source said.
The underage girl told The Post last weekend that when she went into Taylor’s suite “the lights were off and he didn’t see my face was bruised,” the girl recounted. “Lawrence asked me my age and I told him I was 19.”
She said she feared for her life if she didn’t have sex with Taylor, although she also said he didn’t force himself on her.
“If I didn’t go through with it, [Taylor] would’ve called Rasheed and there would have been consequences,“ she said. “God knows what would’ve happened if I didn’t go through with it.”
But in fact, her friend has told investigators, when she left the hotel and “comes into the car, she’s bragging that she was able to make money and ‘I didn’t even have to f— him,’ ” according to the source.
Davis was arrested early May 6 when he returned to The Bronx with the girl, who had text-messaged her uncle, who in turn alerted cops. He faces a federal sex-trafficking charge.
Taylor was busted shortly afterward when the girl told cops about their tryst in the hotel.
The hooker’s friend said that the underage girl began living with her and Davis in late April with the knowledge of the girl’s uncle and her sister, according to the source. The friend also has said the girl began dancing at several strip clubs and then turning tricks to pay $150 per week in rent to Davis, the source said.
“This was totally by her own free will,” the source said.