An Oregon Democratic congressional candidate feared her future in politics was kaput when a video of her as a Manhattan dominatrix popped up online — but she now embraces her raunchy past, she told The Post.
Courtney Casgraux, who wants to represent Portland’s western suburbs, was horrified when a clip of her working at a Midtown BDSM dungeon was anonymously posted to Reddit on Aug. 31.
“[I was] just panicking … Then I was like, ‘Who did this?’ and I just started calling every single person that I pretty much knew from my past … I was like hyperventilating, crying,” the Huntington Beach, Calif., native recalled.
Casgraux, 41, worked as a dominatrix in her 20s and 30s, charging clients $500 per hour.
Years later, while staying with a friend in the Bronx during the pandemic, she returned to the risqué business — this time at Donatella’s Dungeon, a still-operating S&M club on Sixth Avenue and West 39th Street.
Although the Pearl District, Ore., resident never found out who posted the racy footage, she believes the poster was trying to “shame” her.
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