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Thief steals famed belly dancer’s heirlooms worth thousands

A famed belly dancer is feeling sick to her stomach after a crook busted into her car in Brooklyn and stole thousands of dollars in heirloom costumes and a sword, cops said.

Layla Isis was unpacking for a belly-dancing performance at Drom! on the Lower East Side Sunday night when she discovered that someone had swiped her precious booty.

“My costumes, jewelry and sword were gone,” Isis told The Post.

“They took the whole suitcase full of all my gear.”

Among the items stolen was this costume.
Among the missing items was the 3-foot-long scimitar sword, which Layla used as a prop, and a silver coin-covered outfit with tribal jewelry that belonged to a fellow dancer who was killed in a car crash.

“She was a beautiful, incredible woman and dancer,” Isis said.

Isis posted an image of the stolen costume on Craigslist and was rally­ing local belly dancers to help scour thrift stores in search of the sentimental items.

“It appears the word has sufficiently been spread across the NYC bellydancers’ community,” Isis wrote on Facebook, “which you do not want to mess with, lest you be cursed with the fleas of a thousand camels in your crotch and have arms too short to scratch.”