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More guys get ripped off by club vixens

- By TINA MOORE, LARRY CELONA and RUTH BROWN

A Saudi diplomat brought home a woman he met at 1 Oak — only to wake up robbed. At least half a dozen men have s u ffe re d the sa me scam, and police are looking for suspects like the one pictured.

Watch out, guys — sexy thieves are prowling New York’s hottest nightclubs so they can screw rich men out of their pricey timepieces.

A Saudi diplomat was robbed of his $30,000 watch and other bling by a hot date he brought home from celebrity hangout 1 Oak — and he’s just the latest victim in a series of similar scams, police sources told The Post.

“That’s what these women do — they prey on men in these types of clubs or hotel bars. What they look for is someone with expensive jewelry or watches, or someone spending a lot of money,” a police source said. “They go where the money is.”

Consular attaché Sultan Khayat, 32, told cops the woman swiped a $30,000 Gerald Genta watch, a $12,000 Rolex, $2,500 in cash and his credit card Monday before running off from the swanky Midtown pad with the loot.

And she’s the second sexy swindler to shake down a hook-up recently from 1 Oak — just last week, police released footage of a woman who they say stole a $50,000 Rolex and $20,000 worth of gold jewelry from a guy she picked up at the club in June.

It’s the same M.O. used to rob several other marks from Meatpackin­g District bars in recent years.

The victims include Knicks player Derrick Williams, who was relieved of $750,000 in jewelry when he brought two vixens home, and a Beverly Hills watch dealer who lost a $590,000 piece when he brought two women back to his hotel from a strip club.

In the latest, incident, Khayat brought his “date” back to his East 53rd Street pad from 1 Oak — a magnet for celebs such as Justin Bieber and Jay-Z — around 7 a.m. Monday, cops said.

The woman then split with his valuables and made $400 in charges on his American Express card, police said.

But authoritie­s hope to have a clue that will lead them to the vixen after taking a condom and a wine glass she used into evidence, according to a police source.

Reached at his home Tuesday, Khayat wouldn’t discuss the case, although he did say the seductress who swindled him doesn’t look like the 1 Oak robber that cops are already looking for.

Khayat added that he doesn’t think he’ll be mingling with the glitterati at the club anytime soon.

“Right now I’m not about it at all,” he told The Post before hanging up.

NYPD sources have previously estimated that around 100 ladies spend their nights going for gold in New York’s clubs — but insiders on Tuesday said some may just be opportunis­ts.

“It is hard to say how many women are doing this,” said one source.

“Most of the time it is a crime of opportunit­y, the guy is drunk and he passes out. Sometimes the guy will say he was drugged, but that is just to save face — he probably just drank too much or got high.”

But the cases that do make it to the NYPD are probably just the tip of the iceberg, sources said — as most victims are too embarrasse­d to report the robberies to authoritie­s.

“There are other victims. They just don’t say anything,” another source said.

“It’s embarrassi­ng that you picked up a chick and got so drunk that she ripped you off. And they might or might not have had sex because they were probably drugged. They’re in a bar waving a lot of money around, that’s why these women are with them.

“These women, they patrol bars like this and promise these guys sex.”

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 ??  ?? HOT NUMBER: This seductress is suspected of fleecing a man she met at nightclub 1 Oak and taking $70,000 in jewelry when he brought her back to his apartment in June.
HOT NUMBER: This seductress is suspected of fleecing a man she met at nightclub 1 Oak and taking $70,000 in jewelry when he brought her back to his apartment in June.

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