A woman who claimed to have been intimidated by boxer Oscar De La Hoya during a wild night at a New York City hotel has now been ordered to pay his legal bill, after a judge said her lawsuit was “frivolous” and malicious. Read more after the jump.
A Manhattan judge has delivered an after-the-bell knockout punch to the alleged hooker who filed a failed $5-million suit against boxer Oscar De La Hoya.
Angelica Cecora, who claimed De La Hoya committed battery and falsely imprisoned her during a drug-fueled sex romp at the Ritz-Carlton, has been ordered to pay the Golden Boy $12,000 in legal fees.
She’d previously been ordered to pay a $500 fine for her lawsuit, which Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Paul Wooten found was “completely without merit in the law” and an obvious effort to “harass or maliciously injure” the troubled former Olympic champ.
Cecora, a model whom the boxer’s side ID’d as a $600-an-hour escort who used the name “Tiny Taylor,” said the ex-welterweight champ intimidated her and caused her “emotional distress” during their wild tryst at the Central Park South hotel on March 15, 2011.
Cecora’s suit said her freak-fest with the pervy pugilist took place after they had dinner together.
The duo went up to his suite, where De La Hoya “put on plaintiff’s underwear and walked around the hotel room” and allegedly “ordered drugs and drug paraphernalia to be delivered to his room.”
After he used the drugs, he asked Cecora to perform an astonishing sex act on him, the suit said. She complied, but the insatiable fighter then asked her to call a friend to bring sex toys, so Cecora rang up her “roommate,” the suit said.
The roommate then went to work on the champ as well, and both women went to sleep at about 2:30 a.m., the suit said. An hour later, the former champ tried rousing Cecora four times to try to get her to have sex with him again, even though she’d repeatedly said no.
Cecora “was afraid to leave the hotel room because she feared that the defendant would attempt to have sex with her again against her will,” her suit said.
De La Hoya’s lawyer, Judd Burstein, noted there was no allegation that De La Hoya had done anything to intimidate Cecora or that he forced her to do anything against her will. He said in court papers that his client’s “touching of plaintiff, a prostitute, in the context of a night of sexual activity, cannot be deemed offensive.”
The judge agreed there was nothing to back up Cecora’s claims of battery, false imprisonment and emotional distress and ordered her to pay De La Hoya’s legal fees and a fine. Special Referee Marilyn Sugarman ruled Cecora must pay $12,000 and her lawyer Tony Evans should pay $2,384 in fees.
Burstein said he has “virtually no expectation I’ll be able to collect from her,” and that he has some sympathy for the petite blonde getting socked with such a large bill.
“She is who she is. What she did was not unexpected,” he said, “but that a lawyer would take this kind of case is shocking.”
Evans did not return a call for comment. He’s appealing Wooten’s decision.
