S&M PRIEST DEAD
‘$1M embezzle’ & kinky-sex scandal
Disgraced “sex slave” priest Peter Miqueli — accused of embezzling $1 million from his Bronx parish to pay for kinky sessions with his S&M “master” — was found dead at his New Jersey home Thursday, police confirmed to The Post.
Brick Township police said Miqueli, 57, died at his home there but declined to provide further detail, saying the Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office is handling the case. Miqueli resigned as pastor of St. Frances de Chantal parish in Throggs Neck in 2015 amid allegations that he swiped the cash to fund his $1,000-a-pop S&M sessions with his beefcake “master” Keith Crist.
The sordid accusations were made in a civil lawsuit brought by parishioners, who also claimed Crist would “force Father Maqueli to drink Keith Crist’s urine.”
They claimed Miqueli blew $60,000 of the stolen funds on “illicit and prescription drugs.”
He also allegedly used the cash to buy his $264,000 home in Brick and to pay rent on his “master’s” East Harlem apartment.
No one answered the door to Miqueli’s white ranch-style abode, which had a statue of Mary on the porch and a cross haphazardly taped to the door. Miqueli’s brother, Joseph, said he didn’t know the circumstances behind the former priest’s death.
“I don’t know what happened to my brother. They won’t even tell me where they found him, how they found him,” he said.
The two brothers — who are among 12 siblings — hadn’t spoken in years. But Joseph always texted him on Peter’s birthday, July 7. “No matter what he did, he was still my brother and I still love him,” Joseph said.
When reached by phone, Crist only said “I can’t even speak right now” and hung up.
At the time, the Archdiocese of New York said that it hadn’t substantiated any allegations that Miqueli stole church funds, and turned over its findings to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
In 2017, Bronx prosecutors said their investigation found that Miqueli swiped more than $22,450 from the St. Frances de Chantal Church — which was reimbursed by the archdiocese.
No criminal charges were filed. The status of the 2015 lawsuit is unclear — online records show no filings other than the original complaint.
The Ocean County medical examiner couldn’t be reached.
The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office referred questions to local police.