Nude model Zoe West gets $15,000 from New York City

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Nude model Zoe West won a $15,000 court case against the New York City Police Department after being wrongfully arrested during a public performance.

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Zoe West is a model who occasionally gets naked, but only if it's for classy purposes. Andy Golub is an artist who loves to paint naked ladies. The pair joined forces in 2011 for a piece of performance art that went astray when the fuzz stepped in.

After West removed her underwear to "enhance the paint application process," the NYPD arrested her for public nudity. According to West, the police waited about 15 to 20 minutes after she took off her underwear to make the arrest. If you're wondering, she was frisked.

This wasn't Golub's first run-in with the law, as he's been body-painting for a long time. But the situation shook up West quite a bit. She said she'd still work with Golub, but maybe in a less public space.

The 22-year-old model lucked out though, winning $15,000 in a court case. Apparently, it's completely legal to be naked in New York City, as long as it is considered "artistic."

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[Nilguiri]

It's illegal to be naked in public in the USA!? haha!

Land of the free, my ass!

[animeaddt]

Reasons why i would not want to live in China

1. The sky is purple (smog). aka. environmental issues

2. Many citizens in China are not adequately educated. Despite what you see in media (mostly propaganda China uses to promote itself in the world)

3. Many of its people are immoral and unethical. In order to gain more money/economic status, people would do anything. (Fake milk powder (causes cancer in babies), fake eggs ( made from some kind of rubber or glue), etc, etc.

..no more space to write

[Brad Baker]

Great video, but there is no model casting session or a 'spank bank'. The animators portray the models paint and also the artists T shirt very well. - This is all about the art. Times Square visitors come from all over the world, and they love the impromptu art sessions. Many times a passerby joins for a painting also. Good job Andy Golub.

[carval51]

it's very cheap place u know u can eat day and night with just 1$ and had a good hotel for 40$ a day

[Vincent Smith]

Hey, look, it's a nude girl getting painted on in public! It's automatically got to be something sexual and perverse in nature! Let's arrest the horrible woman for exposing herself and offending all of the sexually repressed people in the world! How dare she?! She's got some nerve!

...Wait, whats that you say? Body art? Does that mean she's not looking for sex? ...Oh.....

[Vincent Smith]

Indeed, it's likely that they would.

[Vincent Smith]

Try harder!

[Hurksley]

I'm Chinese and Taiwanese please get your factories out of my land I'm allergic to them,no one wants you back so stop your ludicrous narcissism, Taiwan is no beneficial to us.

[Duong Ducson]

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[gapig1406]

Taiwan is a country,not China's city

[k0970195963]

Taiwan just is Taiwan!!

[KramSacul]

The body of a 10yr old boy...