New York Post

TV ‘Bad Girl’s dead-ID bust

Her john OD’d: feds

- By KAJA WHITEHOUSE

A former reality TV star has been arrested for stealing the identity of a man found dead in his Manhattan apartment from a drug overdose after she hooked up with him, authoritie­s said Wednesday.

Manhattan US Attorney officials and the NYPD busted Shannade Clermont (inset) of the Oxygen network’s “Bad Girls Club,” saying she used the man’s debit card in the months after he died to rack up $20,000 in fraudulent purchases, including airline tickets, luxury clothes and cellphone payments.

The unidentifi­ed man was found dead on Feb. 1, 2017, the morning after what feds described as Clermont’s “prostituti­on date” with cocaine and fentanyl in his system and a loose and broken condom on his bed.

Clermont, 24, has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, access-device fraud and aggravated identity theft. She faces decades in prison if convicted.

She was not charged in connection to the man’s overdose death and it’s unclear if officials even

know whether the man died before or after she left the apartment.

What is known is that text messages and video surveillan­ce place her at his East 53rd Street apartment the night before he was found, prosecutor­s said.

“What do you want to do?” the man texted shortly before her visit.

“I want to see you for the amount we agreed on. So you tell me,” Clermont responded. “Let’s do $400,” she allegedly added.

“OK. I’m a cool dude. You’ll have fun. What type of booze do you like? Wine!” he texted, according to the feds. Wearing a tight black running outfit, she cried at a bail hearing attended by her twin sister, Shannon Clermont, before being released on a $100,000 bond.

Clermont and her twin were featured on Season 14 of “Bad Girls Club,” a reality show that features young women who consider themselves to be “bad girls.” More recently, the sisters modeled for Kanye West’s fashion brand, Yeezy.

Shannade “lived up to her reality-series reputation,” Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said.

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