Lipstick Jungle Stage Manager Charged With Theft

Date: Jan 26, 2009

The Brooklyn district attorney's office has informed that a stage manager for the NBC show Lipstick Jungle had been charged with theft and was accused of stealing almost $30,000 in designer clothes from the production.

Friday, Arthur Moreira was arrested as a result of an operation that entailed police officers having tried to purchase several of the stolen clothes from the man at his apartment, the district attorney's office further revealed.

The theft was first discovered by employees of French designer Sylvia Toledano after some of the fashion items that the fashion house had lent to the show were found on eBay.

In a statement released, the office stated that among the sixteen items that had been stolen from Brooklyn-based Broadway Ventures, which owns the production and storage facilities used by the show, were sequined mosaic clutches, an Oscar de la Renta snakeskin bag and Gucci coats.

Authorities in Brooklyn are currently keeping Moreira in custody pending arraignment.

Lipstick Jungle revolves around the lives of Nico, Wendy, and Victory, who are three of New Yorks 50 Most Powerful Women, according to New York Times magazine.

The shows cast includes Brooke Shields (as Wendy Healy), Kim Raver (as Nico Reilly), Lindsay Price (as Victory Ford) and Andrew McCarthy (as Joe Bennett

Date: Jan 27, 2009

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With the fate of NBC's uncanceled Lipstick Jungle a primetime uncertainty, one staffer took no chances with his fallback plans: He swiped $30,000 in fashions from the show and put them on eBay.

Unfortunately for 27-year-old stage manager Arthur Moreira, employees of one of the show's featured fashion labels noticed that some of their lent pieces had turned up on the auction site, and promptly contacted the authorities.

[He] was arrested Friday in a sting operation that included officers buying stolen goods from Moreira at his apartment, according to a statement from the district attorney's office.
Among 16 items stolen from Brooklyn-based Broadway Ventures, which owns the production and storage facilities used by "Lipstick Jungle," were sequined mosaic clutches, an Oscar de la Renta snakeskin bag and Gucci coats, the office said.

Moreira's lawyers plan to argue the items had been useless props that would have been tossed out had he not salvaged them but prosecutors point to a highly suspicious eBay posting touting one "Hardly Used: Andrew McCarthy's Career! But It Now for $4300" as hard evidence the stage manager had been pulling long-forgotten items out of Lipstick storage and selling them at grossly inflated prices.