Swedish Model Sabina Johansson Busted In Prostitution Ring!

Sabina Johansson, a 23-year old Swedish model who appeared in an Avril Lavigne music video and on the Tyra Banks Show, was busted on Thursday in Big Daddy Lou’s Hot Lap Dance Club on W. 38th Street in Manhattan. The model allegedly worked as a house madam for a prostitution ring.

The club owner, prominent attorney Lou ‘Big Daddy’ Posner, was also arrested and charged with promoting prostitution at the club.

Sabina Johansson (also known as Sabina Mari) denied knowing the sex-for-sale activities going on in the private rooms of the club. However, New York investigators confirmed her involvement in the business.

According to the statement of the investigators, NYPD vice unit officers once posed as patrons at the club. The young model eventually greeted them at the club and hinted that they could expect sex from lap dancers if the price was right.

As the house mom, the model was said to collect nightly fees of up to $80 from the club’s 120 dancers. She also took charge of scheduling the dancers' shifts and in the renting out of the private rooms and suites.

While Sabina Johansson could not be reached for comment on the issue, the news of the young model's arrest is expected to distress the modeling industry once again. Before Sabina Johansson's case, the Kazakh model Ruslana Korshonuva who recently committed suicide by jumping from her Manhattan apartment was also rumored to have been involved in a prostitution ring that exploited young foreign models.

Thus, the arrest of the Swedish Model Sabina Johansson in the prostitution ring was said to raise new concerns over how young fashion models can vulnerably fall into lines of work that exploit their beauty and inexperience.