A fight broke out between a party promoter and several women at DUMBO mainstay Superfine in March that the Post is calling a "hipster catfight." In their eyes, it seems this story has a little bit of everything: wolves, libations, lawsuits, trendy neighborhoods, ripped skirts, bitten legs, Galapagos, felony assault, and cigarette burns.
Valerie Termini, who works under the name “Lady ValTronic,” offered a woman a drink at Superfine at 4:40 a.m. on March 18. She didn't realize that she had gotten into the argument weeks before at the bar's beloved free orange felt pool table—but the other woman definitely did remember. “I didn’t recognize her, I just thought she was a pretty girl,” Termini told the Post. “Her two wolves came after me and started screaming at me. They got kicked out of the bar, but they waited around the corner for me.”
Termini alleges in her lawsuit that when she left the bar soon after, 22-year-old suspect Ashley Deangelis allegedly flicked a cigarette into her face, burning her. Deangelis, 24-year-old fellow suspect Gloriann Cabassa and two other women then allegedly knocked her down onto the street and beat her up; among other things, police say they ripped her skirt and shoes off, bloodied her nose and left the orbital bone around her eye broken. “It went on for 7 or 8 minutes. Ashley bit me in the leg,” said Termini.
Both suspects work at Galapagos art space—they turned themselves in earlier this week, and face charges including felony assault in the second degree. The two other suspects are still at large. Doctors told Termini she was lucky she didn't lose her eye, but she did lose her day job because of her injuries: “ I worked at the Flatiron Hotel in Midtown as a cocktail waitress. At the end of the night the bar manager told me that I couldn’t come back. He said, ‘you’re not pretty enough to work here anymore,’ and pointed to my face.”
