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BANKS PORN $HORN
By LUKAS I. ALPERT
A one-time porn queen, using brazen beauty and come-hither eyes, ripped off six New Jersey banks to the tune of $40,000 in an identity-theft scam by dolling herself up in a black pinstriped power suit and heels and posing as an actual bank customer, police said.
The jiggly sexpot, known to the adult world simply as Farrah, but to police as Joy Marquart, 30, was busted at a Washington Mutual branch in Emerson on Monday after a teller realized her drivers' license was a fake, authorities said.
The bodacious blonde had successfully fooled tellers at other banks, in Emerson, Fair Lawn, Hackensack, Oradell, Ridgewood and Westwood in recent months, said Emerson Police Detective Sgt. George Buono. Each haul netted $6,000 to $7,500, he said.
But investigators believe the top-heavy tart was merely a gorgeous face fronting for a Big Apple-based identity-theft ring that recruited attractive, white, suburban-looking women to rip off bank accounts.
"She isn't the mastermind by any stretch of the imagination," Buono said.
Taking actual customers' names and account numbers, the thieves fashioned fake IDs with Marquart's mug on them, along with phony checks and debit cards, so that she could make withdrawals, Buono said.
Marquart was being held at the Bergen County Jail yesterday on theft charges in lieu of $105,000 bail.
Police are searching for Marquart's accomplices and were trying to figure out how they got hold of people's information.
Marquart began her rise in the porn world about a decade ago, when she moved from her hometown of Fort Wayne, Ind., to Florida, where she became a stripper. About a year later, she arrived in America's porn Mecca — California's San Fernando Valley — and began appearing in adult films like "To Uranus and Back" and "Vincent Van Blow." Her passionate and vocal performances quickly garnered a rabid following.
She ultimately made about 50 films before dropping out of the scene in 2003. A few months ago, she moved to The Bronx to see friends and look for work, said her mother, Martha Rose Shaw.
Shaw said her daughter's sultry good looks had gotten her in trouble in the past.
"She always kind of depended on her looks to get her where she wanted be," Shaw told The Record newspaper. "There were plenty of people who preyed on that."
