By AUSTIN FENNER, LEONARD GREENE and LAURA ITALIANO
Last updated: 12:09 pm
July 24, 2008
Posted: 3:46 am
July 24, 2008
The sexy model girlfriend of Park Avenue's millionaire doorman once worked as a "greeter" at a brothel - but insisted yesterday she never knew about the raunchy goings-on there.
"I had no idea what was going on behind the scenes," said Sabina Mari Johansson, who worked at Big Daddy Lou's Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street just weeks before it was raided last week.
"I learned about it when it hit the papers. I knew it was a topless strip club. I had no idea they were doing prostitution."
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Johansson, 23, said she worked at the club for six months, greeting customers and helping dancers. She left several weeks before its owner, Lou Posner, and his wife, Betty, were busted for allegedly promoting prostitution, money laundering and falsifying business records.
She insisted she wasn't involved in prostitution - and didn't strip or serve drinks either.
"I do fashion," Johansson said.
"I do fitness. I do bikinis. I don't do nude."
Lately, she has been spending time with Richie Randazzo, the $5 million, rags-to-riches doorman who was smitten when he saw her modeling for a photo shoot in Coney Island.
"He's a sweetheart," Johansson cooed. "He's sincere. He's a gentleman."
Randazzo, 44, who hit it big in May in the state's "Set for Life" scratch-off game, said he did not know about Johansson's strip-club stint.
"It's news to me," Randazzo said. "We've known each other all of 10 days. She's the best thing that's happened to me since the lottery."
Meanwhile, a Manhattan judge set free the accused brothel proprietor at Johansson's old gig - after prosecutors said they need more time to present their prostitution and money-laundering case against 21 people to a grand jury.
Under state law, Posner, a millionaire, had to be released from jail if no indictment had been handed up against him by yesterday.
Both Posner and his wife were sprung under the same deadline loophole.
Indictments against the four facing felony charges - the Posners, the club bartender and a manager - should be voted on by the time the current grand-jury term ends in two weeks, a source said.
