Sabina Mari Johansson has hit it big. Once a “greeter” for a New York brothel, the 23-year-old Swedish bikini model is now the girlfriend of millionaire doorman Richie Randazzo.
Randazzo, a Park Avenue doorman, won $5 million on May 2nd in the “Set for Life” scratch-off game and vowed to keep his $40,000 a year job.
But last week, Randazzo opted to skip work and hit the casinos in Atlantic City with his new bikini babe instead. The newly minted millionaire told the Post that if his jealous bosses fire him, he’ll do what every regular joe does – collect unemployment.
“I’m the most beloved doorman in New York,” he said, as he praised the tenants in his building.
“It hurts. I’ve been nothing but dedicated and loyal to my job.
“But the job demands are a little too rigid,” Randazzo said, “and someone has to stand up for the little guy.
“You’re required to stand all the time,” Randazzo, 44, complained. “They want you to look like a soldier.”
Randazzo’s new gal pal claims she had no idea her former employers were running a brothel at Big Daddy Lou’s Hot Lap Dance Club.
“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.” claims the 23-year-old.
Johansson says she worked at the club for six months before the owner, Lou Posner and his wife, Betty, were arrested for promoting prostitution, money laundering and falsifying business records.
She says she was not involved in prostitution and only greeted customers and helped the dancers.
Johansson met Randazzo while working on a photo shoot in Coney Island.
“He’s a sweetheart,” Johansson cooed. “He’s sincere. He’s a gentleman.”
For his part, Randazzo says he didn’t know about Johansson’s work in the strip club.
“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.”
View photos of the rags-to-riches couple below.
UPDATE: Johansson has now been charged with promoting prostitution.
According to NYPD vice unit officers posing as club customers, Sabina Johansson greeted them upon their arrival at the club in April and told them they could get more than lap dances from the lap dancers if the price was right.
As the ‘house mother’, Sabina Johansson allegedly collected fees of about $80 from 120 lap dancers, scheduled shifts and rented out the club’s rooms.