Porn Valley- It’s going to be a long, lonely summer for [Playboy Playmate] Bridget Marks, whose twin daughters will go back to California with their father next week, under a Family Court judge’s ruling yesterday.

Marks’ attorneys argued the 4-year-old girls should remain in Manhattan, to permit frequent visits with their mother, who raised them from birth.

But Judge Arlene Goldberg said the girls could go back to the West Coast with their father, wealthy casino tycoon John Aylsworth.

Goldberg gave a little something to both sides in the custody battle, however, stipulating the twins could not stay away from Manhattan and their mother as “long as Mr. Aylsworth wants.”

And Goldberg hinted that the restrictions on Marks’ visits with her kids – now supervised 24 hours a day by social workers – could end during the next six months.

Marks has to pay the social workers $5,000 a week.

The continuing custody battle pits Marks, 38, a former Playboy magazine model, against Aylsworth, 54, a married grandfather with whom she had an affair.

Goldberg awarded custody of the girls, Amber and Scarlet, to Aylsworth on June 1. Goldberg and several court-appointed experts said Marks had alienated the girls against Aylsworth and falsely accused him of sexually molesting them.

Marks plans to appeal Goldberg’s custody decision in the Appellate Division of Manhattan Supreme Court.

She lost a round in that battle yesterday. Appellate Justice John Burke denied her request for an emergency stay of Goldberg’s custody ruling pending the appeal.

Back story, 6/2/2004: Custody Battle Between a Playboy Playmate and a Casino Mogul

The parties involved in this custody fight are Bridget Marks, the mother, a former playboy pin-up and graduate student in international affairs. The father is John Aylsworth, a casino mogul, mult-millionaire and a married man.

NEW YORK – A stunning decision in New York today as a judge says a mother must give up her twin daughters. The former Playboy playmate remains in shock over the decision to grant custody to a casino mogul.

The parties involved in this custody fight are Bridget Marks, the mother, a former playboy pin-up and graduate student in international affairs. The father is John Aylsworth, a casino mogul, mult-millionaire and a married man.

Their relationship led to the birth of twin girls, though Allsworth and his wife of several decades urged abortion. The girls were raised by Marks. Aylsworth made occasional visits, but in a surprise, last year, the mogul and his wife began a custody battle for the four-year-old children and the court ruled in his favor.

These are the four-year-old children that were caught in between two parents in a custody fight. Now, the court has ruled in the father’s favor.

So why would a judge take two girls away from their familiar home and hand them to a father they barely knew? According to the judge, Marks crossed a legal line during the custody fight, accusing her ex-lover of inappropriate behavior — molestation — which the court found unsubstantiated. The father was then awarded custody of the children under a concept called parental alienation.

Mark’s spokesman says, “The theory is very simple: that because the mother said bad things about the father…therefore, that means the children will never be able to have a bond with the father if they continue to live with the mother. The problem here is that they’re using a sledgehammer to knock-down a thumbtack.”

Marks spoke to Diane Sawyer today on Good Morning America:

Diane Sawyer: “what have you said to the girls this morning?”

Bridget Marks: “that they’re going to be leaving mommy and that they’re going to have to live with their father.”

Diane Sawyer: “and what did they say to you?”

Bridget Marks: “that they don’t want to go. That they love mommy.”

Bridget Marks and her attorney plan to appeal the decision to hand over custody of the twin girls to their father.