New York Post

Gaga in LES Box-ing match

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LADY Gaga may want to think outside the Box in a Lower East Side standoff over the hipster nightclub.

Mother Monster famously began her career in the dives of downtown. But now one of her ol’ haunts, the Box, is under fire after it was accused in a lawsuit of allowing men to sexually harass one of its bottle girls.

Page Six hears the “Bad Romance” musician is being made to choose sides, with scenesters begging her to cancel plans to host sister Natali Germanotta’s bacheloret­te party there next week.

The late-night club, known for its extremely risqué and sometimes scatologic­al stage shows, opened in 2007 and has since hosted Zoë Kravitz, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus and countless Fashion Week events.

A suit filed by a former staffer in 2022 claims managers “ordered and coerced female waitresses, performers, and employees to dress provocativ­ely and travel throughout New York City in order to lure male customers to . . . the Box, where they would be serviced with sexual acts, sexual intercours­e, drugs, and excessive alcohol by other female employees who had been forced to perform these acts.”

The court papers allege that the bosses “forced these female employees to do this with promises to them of money, advancemen­t, access to wealthy and celebrity clients, and career advancemen­t. The female employees were threatened with terminatio­n or loss of their shifts if they did not comply.”

The case is still working its way through the courts, and the defendants have reportedly denied these claims. But we’re told the LES nightlife set are still riven by the allegation­s, with one insider telling us sceney sorts “are urging Gaga to cancel the party.”

Natali, a fashion designer responsibl­e for many of the singer’s stage looks, is engaged to photograph­er Alex Dolan. They’re expected to get hitched in Maine in early June.

Reps for the Box and Gaga didn’t get back to us.

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