Pix fixed, so stripper drops Oscar De La Hoya suit

It wasn’t fishnet. It was Photoshop.

Ex-Scores stripper Milana Dravnel dropped her $25 million suit against Oscar De La Hoya on Monday after experts concluded photos of the super welterweight champ in drag that she claimed were real had been digitally doctored.

“Oscar’s always claimed the photos were false,” said the boxer’s lawyer, Judd Burstein. “We had experts conclude that they were doctored. She was facing very large damages and so she agreed to drop the case. … The case would have been dismissed anyway.”

Dravnel’s lawyer, Salvatore Strazzullo, who paraded his stiletto-heeled client for the cameras after a February hearing in Manhattan Federal Court, was uncharacteristically mum yesterday.

“No comment,” is all he said.

Dravnel, 22, sued De La Hoya for slander, claiming the champ’s camp urged her to sign an agreement claiming she could not prove the photos were authentic.

Dravnel said the pictures of De La Hoya in fishnets, high heels and a tutu were taken at a Philadelphia hotel in May 2007.

They later made it onto the Internet and were splashed across the pages of the fact-challenged New York Post. Last September, the Post ran the photos beside a story that breathlessly reported Dravnel’s soon-to-air television interview with the CBS tabloid show “The Insider.”

“He would like to put on lingerie, as the pictures show,” the Post quoted Dravnel telling CBS.

Two days later, the Post refused to back off despite De La Hoya’s claims the photos were fake. “No matter what Dravnel says and no matter how much she recants, others are supposedly coming forward to parrot her original account of what happened with the fighter,” the tabloid chirped.

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Stripper Hired to Dance at Funeral

There is a bond that some children have with their parents that can never be stripped away.

Cai Ruigong, a Taiwanese man, proved that recently when he hired an adult dancer to perform at his father’s funeral.

Ruigong’s father, Cai Jinlai, was 103 years old when he passed away. Jinlai was famous for his interest in strips clubs and often traveled around the island where he lived, visiting various strip clubs. Jinlai was the oldest person in his village and had over 100 descendants.

Ruigong had made a promise to his father that if he lived past 100 years old, he would have a stripper dance at his funeral.

Jinlai would have been proud to know that he went out in style, with a $160 stripper dancing for 10 minutes in front of his coffin.

We recently published a video that was sent in by one of our readers that showed strippers performing in front of children. Apparently strippers are not frowned upon in Taiwanese culture.

In China, there has been a practice of having strippers at funerals to help boost the number of mourners.

“Local villagers believe that the more people who attend the funeral, the more the dead person is honoured.”

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