The boy of popular icon Cyndi Lauper allegedly name-dropped his celebrated mom during his apprehension connected weapon charges.
Declyn 'Dex' Lauper, 28, is said to person mentioned nan sanction of his superstar mother, and said astir her astir celebrated opus 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' during his arrest.
The nepo baby weapon fishy told cops astir his superstar mother and her chart-topping deed arsenic he was cuffed pursuing a Harlem shooting incident, according to tribunal documents obtained by nan New York Post.
'I grew up, my mom is Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Want to Have Fun,' Lauper allegedly told a detective.
The aspiring rapper appeared successful Manhattan Supreme Court successful a swanky achromatic Versace shirt, wherever he pleaded not blameworthy to weapon possession charges stemming from nan February 7 incident.
Declyn 'Dex' Lauper, 28, dropped nan sanction of his superstar mom, mentioning her astir celebrated opus 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' during his apprehension (Pictured successful April)
The nepo-baby weapon fishy told cops astir his superstar mother and her chart-topping deed arsenic he was cuffed pursuing a Harlem shooting incident
He was caught pinch a loaded Glock .48 caliber handgun and narcotics adjacent wherever his 24-year-old pal had been changeable successful nan limb by a pack of 5 gunmen.
'Mostly my caput is successful nan correct place, it's my music,' he apparently told cops aft nan bust. 'No, I was asking group to telephone my mom and telephone my life coach.'
'All I cognize is I look up and there's guns successful everybody's face,' Lauper said. 'It's not really my first rodeo, coming from my family that I travel from. And my mom and uncles and each that. So I was calm bro.'
He past boasted astir his wealth, claiming to beryllium wearing a $20,000 necklace and bragging astir his dada paying for his injured friend's lawyer.
'I ain't going to dishonesty for you, I paid for his lawyer, truthful he took that slug for me,' said Lauper said, who avoided Rikers Island aft his 'Law & Order' character dad, David Thornton, bailed him retired pinch $20,000 rate astatine his criminal arraignment.
This isn't Lauper's first brushwood pinch nan rule – he antecedently dodged jailhouse clip for stealing a Mercedes extracurricular different rapper's memorial successful 2022.
He was arrested aft being successful possession of a stolen 2014 Mercedes Benz while astatine a July 14, 2022 memorial work for an aspiring rapper named Ethan Reyes, who had been fatally stabbed days before.
He was caught pinch a loaded Glock .48 caliber handgun and narcotics adjacent wherever his 24-year-old pal had been changeable successful nan limb by a pack of 5 gunmen
This isn't Lauper's first brushwood pinch nan rule – he antecedently dodged jailhouse clip for stealing a Mercedes extracurricular different rapper's memorial successful 2022
Dex had been arrested arsenic he sat successful nan idling conveyance double parked astatine nan cross-section of 140th Street and Broadway, nan New York Post reported.
Prosecutors successful nan lawsuit said that Dex told constabulary officers erstwhile he was questioned astir nan vehicle: 'You astir apt cognize who I am.'
Dex entered a blameworthy plea to disorderly behaviour pinch nary jailhouse clip successful relationship pinch nan incident.
As conditional to his plea deal, Dex was ordered by Manhattan Criminal Court to debar immoderate further problem for a year's time; and execute a organization work that stretched 5 days. He faced up to a twelvemonth successful custody if convicted, according to nan outlet.
Following nan October 2022 tribunal hearing, Dex was seen smoking marijuana (which is ineligible successful New York City) pinch friends arsenic he boarded a SUV parked extracurricular of nan courthouse.
In an Instagram Stories station that day, Dex posted an image of a smoke-filled conveyance pinch nan caption, 'Court.'
Declyn 'Dex' Lauper, 26, walked into Manhattan Supreme Court alongside his woman and entourage connected April to look a proceeding connected 2 counts of criminal possession of a loaded firearm
In April, he appeared successful tribunal connected weapon charges pursuing nan shooting successful Harlem.
He walked into Manhattan Supreme Court alongside his woman and entourage to look a proceeding connected 2 counts of criminal possession of a loaded firearm.
He wore a achromatic Louis Vuitton shirt, ray bluish jeans and sunglasses wrong nan courtroom wherever Judge Marisol Martinez Alonso adjourned nan lawsuit to May 15.
That came as he faced eviction from his luxury Manhattan apartment, aft neighbors complained astir large music, precocious nighttime screaming and marijuana odors.
His landlord revenge an eviction petition to person nan 26-year-old removed from his $7,200-a-month apartment.
Dex has been accused of violating lease rules successful nan flat building successful nan Financial District since he moved successful past October.