Wall Street sugar daddy who fell for Manhattan stripper sues

A Wall Street financier is suing a stripper after he leant her hundreds of thousands of dollars and a Gucci scarf when COVID shut down her club.

John Leahy, of Union, Michigan, filed the suit against Aline Luz Dunga and her mother, Annalu Gomez, in Manhattan Supreme Court on February 24, alleging that they never paid him back the money he leant them over a three year span.

He claims in the suit that he fell for Aline Luz Dunga when he first met her at her job as an exotic dancer, and thought they were in a serious relationship as he spent $125,000 to help her through the global pandemic.

Leahy also claimed he once leant Dunga his Gucci scarf, which she never gave back, and helped pay her mother’s cancer treatments and Massachusetts state taxes before they stopped speaking with him.

John Leahy, a Wall Street financier, has retained Cesar de Castro (pictured) to represent him in a lawsuit against a stipper

Leahy claims he believed he was in a serious relationship with Aline Luz Dunga when he leant her and her mother $125,000 over the course of three years

According to the lawsuit, obtained by the New York Daily News, Leahy set up a sort of stimulus package for the struggling stripper, lending her money on a regular basis for ‘maintenance.’

He also spent several thousands to help Gomez, Dunga’s mother, pay off her state taxes and cancer treatments Documents obtained by DailyMail.com show Gomez had a history of defaulted loans in the past. 

In total, he says, he doled out $125,000 from 2019 through 2021, believing Dunga would eventually pay him back and that they were in a serious relationship.

‘Between the years 2019 and 2021, [Dunga] made false representations that she and [Leahy] were in a legitimate relationship to induce him to make payments to her creditors for her maintenance,’ it explains. 

He is now suing for the money back, as well as a Gucci scarf he leant Dunga like the one seen here

But the money dried up when Leahy finally realized in August 2021 that Dunga was only interested in his money, the lawsuit claims, at which point he forced her to pay back $10,000,

Just a few months later, in November, though, Gomez borrowed $6,000 more to pay off her Massachusetts Toll and Excise Tax, and borrowed another $8,000 shortly thereafter, the suit claims. 

She allegedly never paid Leahy back for that money, and soon she and Dunga cut off all contact with Leahy while ignoring his pleas to refund the money, the suit claims.

He is now asking a judge to force the two women to pay all of his money back, and return a Gucci scarf he says he leant Dunga in 2021.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Leahy’s attorney for more information.

It remains unclear whether Dunga or Gomez have retained lawyers who could speak on their behalf.