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A nude model can now afford to buy some new clothes, thanks to a $15,000 award she has won from the city in a false arrest lawsuit settlement.
According to an article in the New York Post, model Zoe West was arrested after an Aug. 30, 2011, full body painting exhibition in Manhattan.
Artist Andy Golub had painted nearly all of her body, when she took off her G-string for the final strokes, and police moved in and hauled her off to the Midtown South police precinct.
Civil rights lawyer Rob Kuby contends that “public nudity is legal in New York City as long as it’s done for purposes of a performance, exhibition or show.”
Although the 22-year-old said she was “gawked at” by police for 15 minutes before she was allowed to dress, and patted down by a female police officer, she was released after two hours with no charges filed.
Ms. West says she has no hard feeling about the experience. Her exposure has “put me on the map in a positive way,” she said. Ms. West is now preparing to move to New York from her home in upstate Kingston, N.Y.
But her lawyer was less forgiving.
“Given the police idiocy, one wonders where the boobs really are,” said Mr. Kuby.