Foot Model Who Married Doorman Sues Co-op Over Harsh Treatment

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Christina Ambers and Angel Rotger at their wedding.
Hand and foot model Christina Ambers fell in love with the doorman at her Upper East Side co-op in 2007, but the superintendent forbade Angel Rotger to see her romantically. And yet the romance between doorman and foot lady could not be so easily snuffed out, and the two continued their affair in secret. When they were found out, Rotger was fired—but not before the super's wife allegedly swung her handbag into his groin so hard he suffered a contusion of the testicle. Naturally, their story is on the cover of the Daily News and the Post today.

They were married in July, and Rotger moved from the Bronx to Ambers's 700-square-foot apartment in the East 74th Street building where he used to work. In a $10 million lawsuit filed yesterday, Ambers accuses other posh people in the building of trying to force her out because they think it's crass to openly cavort with the help. She says the staff doesn't tell her when packages arrive, call cabs, etc. "It seems that Christina has breached some type of social order that existed in that building," says Joshua Price, a lawyer for the newlyweds. "You live in this ritzy Upper East Side apartment and now Angel the porter is Angel your next-door neighbor—I guess it makes some people feel uncomfortable." And Ambers tells the Daily News:

I hope that people can understand how awful it is to come home and to then be treated with hostility in a building where I have paid a lot of money to live. Nobody should have to live this way. The people in this building need to come into the 21st century. I fell in love with Angel because he is a sweet, caring man—how dare they look down on us!

But residents say Ambers is "the biggest problem in the building" because she "parades around" in skimpy outfits. Having thoroughly researched Ambers's body of work (a sampling is provided here for reference purposes) it's clear this is all about envy of her pretty hands and toes and strapping husband and morbidly obese cat.

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Good Lord! Why is there such a discrepancy between the sizes of her fingers?! Look how tiny her left pinky is! That is just freakish. How did this woman become a hand model?

...hmm, upon examination of the other photos, it appears that's just some terrible photoshopping in the Maybelline ad.

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Crass? I don't know about that... gauche maybe...

Foot model?

She is only a millimeter away from a Coup de' toe!

Wait, what? Neither of my pinkies reaches the first knuckle of my ring finger... is that supposed to be "freakish?"

Do your pinkies also not reach the second knuckle of your index finger?

hands and feet aside, how is Rutger's testicle doing? sounded excruciating and inquiring minds want to know.

There goes his ball-modeling career.

Wow, so rich people's toes aren't yellow?!

Well, Angel is certainly the winner here - all the more so if the chick didn't give him a pre-nup...

Good thing Rotger was the doorman and not a testicle model! That handbag could have been a career ender.

"Oh the DOORMAN... pray tell what did the DOORMAN say?"

Sounds like the residents of this building have their collective panties in a twist. The super forbade them to see each other? What is he, the dad from Dirty Dancing?

She's like a slutty Sarah Silverman - with bigger teeth...

Maybe the neighbors were worried about a dirty foot fetishist living in their building.

I think the neighbors are more upset by her shitting everywhere and eating hay all day.

You see, I'm saying she has a face like a horse.

i just want to say, you are all doing a fabulous job with this story. keep up the good work gang.

Don't you just love it when just because somebody gives you a job it entitles them to tell you what you can do in your private life?

Can't a hard working guy get a foot in the door?

Talk about not toeing the line.

Is that Time Out cover real? Because if it is, it's hilarious.

He should sue the building for wrongful termination.

she's a weird cat lady, so i am gonna have to side with her neighbors.

Wow, why people have to be like this if she chooses to love the doorman!

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