Paul Aronson and Shalaine Foster
Teenage twin sisters were arrested for tying up and robbing an 85-year-old sugar daddy after meeting him on a dating website. Shalaine and Shaina Foster were taken into custody and charged with kidnapping, burglary, robbery, assault, and grand larceny for their idea of an easy come up. Prosecutors said the 17-year-old twins tied retired lawyer Paul Aronson to a coffee table in his Manhattan apartment for 20 hours, while they went on a shopping spree with his credit cards.
Sources say Shalaine met Aronson on the website SeekingArrangement.com, a hub for sugar daddies and sugar babies to connect, in exchange for a few coins. Ironically a tag line from the website reads “Date Safely. Meet thousands of background checked members.” The twin sisters arrived for dinner with Aronson on October 1, but much to his surprise things didn’t go completely as he planned. After dinner, the trio went back to Aronson’s apartment where they had a few cocktails, and the twins exacted their plan.
They used zip-ties to tie the retired lawyer to a coffee table by his legs and restrain his hands behind his back. “The informant fell onto the floor and could not get up and laid on the ground for approximately 20 hours,” court documents said. While Aronson laid tied up in his luxury apartment, the twins allegedly went shopping with his credit cards and nearly $500 in cash. Among the teen’s purchases were makeup and clothes — probably to look good for their next sugar daddy victim.
Shalaine and Shaina Foster’s lawyer Brian Kennedy tells a different story. Kennedy says the twins were lured in by a beautiful apartment, alcohol, and the promise of something more. He said Aronson was the one with impure intentions and began asking questions about their sexual experiences.
The twins’ mother Liza Torres said the whole thing was a misunderstanding and doesn’t believe the allegations. She was later arrested on the courthouse for heroin possession. The New York Post revealed that Shalaine attended a girls-empowerment program sponsored by Mary J. Blige’s short lived non-profit Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now (FAWN).
Their brother Adam Torres said the whole situation is “f’d up.”