New York Daily News

Perviness is in his jeans: suit by Levi’s

- Stephen Rex Brown

TO ENTER: A BRONX man who once worked for Levi’s tricked a 15-year-old girl into believing he was offering her a job at the company’s Times Square store — and then tried to arrange a tryst with her at his house, a lawsuit by the jeans company charges.

Repugnant text messages introduced in the suit against Darrin Barker, 24, show he attempted to entice the girl with a sales job before promising her free jeans and money if she’d be his “boo.”

Levi’s sued Barker (photo) Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court. It seeks a court order preventing the man, who last worked for Levi’s in 2014, from associatin­g with the brand.

Barker faces criminal charges of endangerin­g the welfare of a child and harassment.

Levi’s opened its investigat­ion after the girl’s mom alerted staff at the Times Square location. The company found Barker had tried a similar con on other girls through Instagram, court papers say.

A man answering a phone registered to Barker hung up on a Daily News reporter.

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