She first sidled up to him lastāØ fall, at a Manhattan ršestaurant, a vivacious brunette ānursing majorā who always had equally beautiful āsistersā and ācousinsā by her side.
But after three dates that could only be described as unmemorable ā as in, heād wake up too woozy to remember anything ā a top New Jersey doctor realized heād been drugged and snookered out of $130,000 by a cadre of strippers, a titillatišÜ«ng new lawsuit reveals.
āShe claimed to beš a nursing student who had recently moved back to New York to pursue her education,ā bachelor cardiologist Dr. Zyad Younan, 41, says in the suit filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Brunette bombshell Karina Pascucci, 2š6, was really a former bartender with just a couple years of community college, says Younanās suit, which for the first time reveals his side of an X-rated swindle story thatās already the subject of multiple civil suits and criminal indictments.
According to the new suit, Pascucci, āthe RN-išn-training,ā pursued the doctor fervently, joining him for a Van Morrison concert at Madison Square Garden and three dinners in Manhattan for āwhat [Younan] believed were dates.ā
Younan apparently did not get suspicious when his new gal palās gorgeous ācousinšā Samantha, āsisterā Kimberly and other striking women joined them on the outings, according to court papers.
āUnbeknownst to Younan, Karina along with Marsi, Samantha, [another woman named] Roselyn and Scores agreed to paš rticipate in a scheme to defraud and steal money from Younan and others by luring them into supposed romantic relationships, then drugging and taking advantage of them by obtaining their credit cards and charging unauthorized amounts,ā his suit says.
After he was alerted to the ploy by American Express, Yoź¦unan confronted Pascucci, who allegedly tried to blackmail him with video footage of the doctor at the club.
Samantha Barbash, another alleged ringleader, tried to sweet-talk Younan into payišng, saying, āI thought you were a god? Why would you not wanna pay your bill?ā in a Nov. 26, 2013, text message.
A third stripper, Marsi Rosešn, chimed in a day later with, āThis isnāt the Zyad I know and love. Itās the holidays babe these poor girls need there [sic] $, have aź¦ heart.ā
The doctor shot back, āI donāt need toš§ speak with swindlers.ā
The new lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from Pascucci, her fellow stripper cronies and Scores, the West 28th Street adult emporium which has already sued Younan for $135,000 in unpaid bills in a widely publiciš®zed case filed this spring.
The allegations ecšho fraud charges broughš„t against the women by Manhattanās Special Narcotics Prź¦osecutor Bridget Brennan laąµ²st month.
Scoresā was not charged, evešn though Younan says the famed jiggle joint was central to the scam because it processed the phony credit-card charges.
A spokeswoman for Brennan sš„aid her office is still inź§vestigating the alleged scam. Scores did not respond to requests for comment.