NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- A jury has awarded $1.2 million to a former Playboy playmate who said she was manhandled in a 2006 scuffle with New York City police officers.
The jury Tuesday sympathized so much with Stephanie Adams, 41, that they awarded $385,000 more than her attorney had asked, the New York Daily News reported.
Adams said she was pushed to the ground at gunpoint by police after she got into an argument with cab driver who refused to carry her clothing into her apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The cab driver, who lost his taxi license over the incident, falsely told police Adams "flashed vampire teeth" and was going to shoot him.
Adams, who was Playboy's Miss November 1992, was wearing skintight jeans and a bare-midriff shirt when she was pushed to the ground. Officers said they weren't sure if she had a weapon but later admitted that in her tight-fitting clothing, there was no place to conceal a weapon, the newspaper said.
