'MTV' PARTY GIRLS RAPED
By LARRY CELONA and JAMIE SCHRAM
September 2, 2002 -- A gang of thugs sexually assaulted four suburban teenagers who came to Manhattan for last week's MTV awards - apparently after the men promised the girls they'd introduce them to rap stars including Eminem, police sources said yesterday.
The drama began Thursday when the four 18-year-olds, all from Westchester, met a group of at least four men they hadn't previously known sometime after the awards were given out at Radio City Music Hall, police said.
After partying together at several area bars, they split into two groups.
Two of the young women eventually stepped into a black sedan parked in a nearby lot with one of the men, according to detectives.
One of them told cops she was raped in the car; the other said she had been sexually assaulted, cops said.
The other two women went into a Times Square hotel and checked into a room with the other three men, police said.
One of them said she was raped there; the other reported being sexually assaulted.
Cops said there was no reason to think the attackers actually knew Eminem or any other rap celebrities or could deliver on the promise.
Police said the victims, whose names were not released, did not report the attack to cops until early Saturday morning at Grand Central Terminal, where they had gone to catch a train home.
It was not clear where they had spent Friday.
The women said they could not identify the hotel or the parking lot where the alleged attacks took place, other than that they were somewhere around the area of 47th Street and Broadway.
They described their alleged attackers as black men in their early 20s.
By LARRY CELONA and JAMIE SCHRAM
September 2, 2002 -- A gang of thugs sexually assaulted four suburban teenagers who came to Manhattan for last week's MTV awards - apparently after the men promised the girls they'd introduce them to rap stars including Eminem, police sources said yesterday.
The drama began Thursday when the four 18-year-olds, all from Westchester, met a group of at least four men they hadn't previously known sometime after the awards were given out at Radio City Music Hall, police said.
After partying together at several area bars, they split into two groups.
Two of the young women eventually stepped into a black sedan parked in a nearby lot with one of the men, according to detectives.
One of them told cops she was raped in the car; the other said she had been sexually assaulted, cops said.
The other two women went into a Times Square hotel and checked into a room with the other three men, police said.
One of them said she was raped there; the other reported being sexually assaulted.
Cops said there was no reason to think the attackers actually knew Eminem or any other rap celebrities or could deliver on the promise.
Police said the victims, whose names were not released, did not report the attack to cops until early Saturday morning at Grand Central Terminal, where they had gone to catch a train home.
It was not clear where they had spent Friday.
The women said they could not identify the hotel or the parking lot where the alleged attacks took place, other than that they were somewhere around the area of 47th Street and Broadway.
They described their alleged attackers as black men in their early 20s.
