A high-end hellion who has stolen everything from Dior cosmetics to a nose job was busted for an Upper East Side apartment-sublet scam — though she tried to avoid arrest by having a powerbroker “pal” pay off her alleged victim, sources said yesterday.
Alexis Sky, 33, who has a rap sheet littered with lootings of upscale shops like Bergdorf Goodman and Sephora, was charged last week in the scheme to fraudulently sublet her posh apartment via Craigslist, law-enforcement sources said.
Her hapless victim paid Sky a $4,000 deposit, but when he attempted to move into 525 E. 72nd St., building management had no idea what he was talking about, sources said.
He confronted Sky, and then her 60-year-old “friend,” Calvin Tannenbaum, a lawyer-turned-Morgan Stanley financial adviser, refunded the money, sources said.
The victim took the dough but still called police, Tannenbaum said.
Sky was arrested Friday, charged with third-degree grand larceny. After three days at Rikers, she was released on $7,500 bail, a Manhattan DA spokesman said.
“The whole thing was a misunderstanding,” Tannenbaum insisted. “She thought he was a good candidate for the sublet, but there was a misunderstanding and he was reimbursed.”
Sky did not return calls for comment, but her lawyer, Mark Bederow, said: “There’s more to the story here.”
Sky, who sells jewelry on her Web site, has at least eight prior convictions on her record, mostly for shoplifting.
In 2002 she attempted to pay for a nose job using someone else’s credit card.
In 2004 she was busted for stealing $280 worth of Dior and Chanel products from Sephora, and was sentenced to three years probation.
In 2001, when her credit card was declined for a $206 bill at a salon, she grabbed the manicurist’s arm. She pleaded guilty to petit larceny and received a conditional discharge.
That same year, she attempted to steal four purses and a scarf from Bergdorf Goodman worth more than $2,000.
She was also charged with refusing to pay several cab fares — all under $10.
Additional reporting by Douglas Montero and Murray Weiss