Porn star may cause dismissal of her former flame's trial
Trista Geyer, aka Kendall Brooks, the former flame of Thomas Gelardo, has been arrested five times in the Sunshine State since November 2014, including for breaking into the home of her former lawyer — also her lover — the week before Christmas.
Gelardo's prosecution for allegedly busting into the “Naughty Athletics” star’s apartment in 2013 has been on ice after jury selection started and was abandoned in May 2015 because Geyer claimed to be taking care of an ill family member.
Arrest records produced by Gelardo's attorney show she’s been busted on drug and shoplifting charges in the meantime. On Dec. 21, Geyer, who appeared in "Housewives Need Cash 5," allegedly burglarized the property of Michael Dicembre, an attorney who she was shacked up with from August to November.
She returned her key after their split, he told cops, but may have made a copy.
Dicembre, who wasn't home, watched her entry in real time on his phone when a motion sensor was triggered.
"He saw Trista Geyer enter his bedroom and walk to his nightstand ... Geyer appears to be startled or remembers something and suddenly turns around towards, and notices the camera," court papers say.
She allegedly stole the $200 equipment and was charged with burglary and petit theft. Cops also spoke to Dicembre about the "theft of a firearm" but Geyer's official charges do not mention a weapon.
The self-described fellatio pro has also been busted on separate occasions for cocaine possession, shoplifting Nicorette gum and pre-natal vitamins from a supermarket and stealing a $55 pair of Van's shoes from a J.C. Penney.
In May, Geyer, 30, told Manhattan prosecutors she could not come to Manhattan to testify against 33-year-old Gelardo, a union construction manager, who faces assault and criminal contempt charges based on her allegations, because of a sick relative.
A relative with medical issues did exist but Geyer has not been tied up full time because of it, prosecutors now concede.
Trista Geyer is a key witness against ex-boyfriend Thomas Gelardo, who faces assault and criminal contempt charges based on her allegations.
Justice Charles Solomon was stunned when Gelardo’s lawyer, Vincent Martinelli, told him details of the about the alleged victim's bad behavior, asking: "So she broke into her lawyer's house?"
"You've got to be kidding me!" the jurist added after hearing the lawyer and Geyer "had a relationship" and "were living together."
Solomon will decide by March 8 whether Gelardo's case must be thrown out because of the long delay.
"If this is true and she's running around committing crimes in Florida and the people are saying she can't be here to testify because of a sick family member — game over," Solomon said.
Geyer could not be reached for comment. Dicembre did not return a message left at his office.
Martinelli said Solomon must decide simply "whether the prosecution was lawfully 'not ready' for trial over the last nine months because of a medical emergency of (Geyer's) family member."
He has been arguing that her "unavailability for trial had nothing to do with a family member's health."
Gelardo is the the nephew of a member of the Lucchese mafia family member by the same name.
His lawyers have denied Geyer's claims since his initial arrest, painting them as fabrications by an unhinged erotic actress.
"The bigger issue is why is this witness worthy of belief to begin with?" Martinelli said.
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