New York — Anthony “Cousin Vinny” Agnello – the stripper-service owner who supplied the talent for a Chappaqua high-school party in 2001 and was charged with prostituting a teenager in 2003 – is up to his old tricks again, Westchester officials charged yesterday.
The owner of World Famous Cousin Vinny’s Gorgeous Strippers has been arrested and charged with promoting prostitution, witness tampering and intimidating a witness, said Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro.
Agnello, 44, of Hawthorne, first made headlines in September 2001 after cops responded to a noise complaint in Chappaqua and found one of his strippers on her back, letting members of a local high school football team lick whipped cream off her body.
Agnello – who shrugged off the incident, asking, “What’s the big deal?” – was not charged. Neither was the $325-an-hour French-Canadian stripper, Nicole LaChance.
But last October, Agnello was arrested and charged with prostituting a teenager – for allegedly arranging for a 17-year-old girl to have intercourse with male customers for money. And last Friday night he was busted in a sting operation at a Bronx motel, where he was allegedly arranging to have two prostitutes engage in sex with one another and then allow a john to join in for $900, Pirro said.
In a search of his home following the bust, police seized notebooks containing the names of his employees, lists of client appointments and other information, Pirro said.
Also confiscated were business cards promising customers “no cellulite, no sags, no prudes . . . for the time of your life, call the World Famous Cousin Vinny.”
Based on the sting, Agnello was charged with two counts of promoting prostitution – each punishable by up to seven years in jail upon conviction.
A grand-jury indictment handed up yesterday added two more counts of promoting prostitution, stemming from the October arrest.