from www.nydailynews.com – A Manhattan judge has dismissed prostitution charges against one of two lap dancers charged with trying to sell sex to an undercover cop.
A decision is expected Tuesday on the case against the second stripper – a porn star who took the stand Friday.
Cassandra Malandri, better known as X-rated star Alexia Moore,[pictured right] admitted Friday she performed a “girl-on-girl” show but denied she offered a threesome for $5,000 at the Manhattan Hot Lap Dance Club in June 2008.
“I was on top of him. I was touching him on his arms and chest,” said the busty blonde, better known as porn actress Alexia Moore. “I do an air dance. I was above him.”
The salacious misdemeanor trial is a rarity in Manhattan courts where most cases are pleaded out.
Malandri and Falynn Rodriquez, both 26, refused a no-jail offer. Their ex-boss Louis Posner faces an April 1 trial on charges he ran a hooker ring.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge ShawnDyn Simpson tossed out the charges against Rodriguez for lack of proof.
“I’m just selling a fantasy,” the pillow-lipped woman said as she left with her father, a retired cop.
It’s Malandri who’s charged with actually cutting the deal with the cop. Asked in court if she tried to sell sex, she said, “Never.”
from www.nypost.com – One lap dancer over the fence!
A Manhattan judge has dismissed the charges against one of two strippers embroiled in a salacious and wacky Manhattan prostitution trial, saying the DA failed to prove she sold anything more than a couple of jiggles and a dream.
That left her co-defendant and lesbian floor-show partner — buxom porn star Alexia Moore — alone to insist from the witness stand yesterday that the pair never, ever, offered a “threesome” to an undercover cop for $5,000.
All she did was flirt, the blonde testified.
“That’s what an entertainer does,” Moore said, her black tights and crocheted sweater straining to contain her professional assets. “To keep getting dances.”
As for her dance partner, Falynn Rodriguez, all charges were dismissed yesterday after her lawyer argued that when the undercover allegedly invited her to join the threesome, all she did was make an eyebrow-raising reference to a sex act.
“She doesn’t say yes. She doesn’t say no,” attorney Adam Moser told the judge. “She only says — that famous line — ‘I’m the only one who tosses Alexia’s salad.’ ”
Prosecutors have no recordings of the supposed negotiations — which they say took place as the undercover, Moore and Rodriguez chitchatted post-dance on one of the back-room beds at the scene of the alleged crime, Big Daddy Lou’s Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street.
Prosecutors can’t even prove that a specific time and place for the alleged “threesome” was agreed upon.
Instead, they have the undercover vice cop — posing as “Ricky,” a wealthy international fabric trader from Mexico City — who testified of the porn star, “She was going to get back to me.”
The misdemeanor trial wrapped up in the afternoon and featured some comic moments — including when Moore’s lawyer, Ikiesha Al-Shabazz, grilled “Ricky” on his claim that he remained unaroused during the lap dances he was forced to endure for the sake of upholding public morals.
“So, detective, you’re telling us that two women, scantily clad, straddling you on a bed for three minutes — and your d- -k didn’t get hard?” she asked.
When prosecutors objected, Al-Shabazz protested, “It goes to credibility, your honor!” The question was allowed, and the answer remained, “No.”
The trial is also something of a criminal-justice oddity. Rodriguez and Moore — real name Cassandra Malandri — unlike most accused prostitutes rejected no-jail plea deals in hopes of clearing their names, despite the threat of a 90-day jail sentence if convicted.
“I wasn’t doing anything wrong!” Rodriguez said as she left court. “I was just selling a fantasy.”
Manhattan criminal court Judge ShawnDya Simpson said she’ll render a verdict in the nonjury trial Tuesday.