Gary Zerola ‘just fooling around’

Attorney Gary Zerola Tasting the Evidence

Photo by Barstool Sports

Gary Zerola, the ex-Most Eligible Bachelor who was accused of sexually assaulting three women, partied at a “Naughty Nurse” fashion show the other night, where he was photographed licking and fondling a gaggle of willing gals.

Zerola, an attorney who was dubbed Boston’s most eligible bachelor by People magazine in 2001 and who was a finalist to be the star of the very first season of ABC’s “The Bachelor,” got up close and personal with four different women at the “Naughty Nurse” fashion show that was part of a liquor promotion at Ned Devine’s .

Zerola was pictured licking one woman’s chin, burying his face in another gal’s breasts and letting a third woman unbutton his shirt. In another photo, Zerola has his head up another woman’s skirt.

“I was just fooling around for the camera,” Zerola told us. “If you were there I would have put my head up your skirt.”

Which is why, the Track always wears pants to these events. But we digress . . .

It is unclear whether any of the women were familiar with Zerola’s past history. Three different women accused the 37-year-old former prosecutor of attacking them after meeting him in a bar. But Zerola beat the rap all three times.

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In January 2008, Zerola was acquitted of trying to rape a 19-year-old girl in his North End apartment after the two spent a night of drinking at Boston clubs.

The woman testified that Zerola became enraged when she rebuffed his advances and, when she tried to flee, he ripped off her thong underwear and a leopard print $450 Dolce & Gabbana dress he had bought her. She said she ran naked into the street and called 911.

The following March, he was found not guilty of four counts of rape and one charge of procuring alcohol for a minor. Zerola’s 19-year-old accuser claimed the lawyer loaded her with liquor at the former Light nightclub in Downtown Crossing and then raped and sodomized her in his Beacon Hill condominium.

Prosecutors in Miami dropped a third rape case against Zerola after he was acquitted in the first two. In that case, an 18-year-old girl said she was drugged and raped by Zerola in a Miami hotel after meeting him in a bar.

In a fourth case, Zerola was acquitted of assaulting a Boston police officer who said Zerola slugged him and fled after he caught him urinating in public following the Celtics [team stats] NBA Championship victory last June.

David Portnoy of Barstool Sports, the magazine that sponsored the “Naughty Nurse” party, said he had no idea who Zerola was when he posted his picture on his Web site.

“I didn’t follow the case at all,” Portnoy said. “I had no clue until people started to e-mail me.”

Portnoy said the pictures were snapped by a photographer hired by Barstool Sports and that Zerola knew he was being photographed.

“People thought I was friends with him or something,” Portnoy said. “But I had no idea.”

File Under: Naughty, Not Nice.

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