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Stripper Pleads Guilty To Bloody Stiletto Assault

Victim, 24, suffered puncture wounds to her scalp

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Stiletto Assault Plea

MARCH 25--A South Carolina stripper has pleaded guilty to assaulting a female coworker with a “clear plastic high-heeled shoe” that left the victim with puncture wounds in her scalp, court records show.

Carolynn Wright, 22, copped Monday to a misdemeanor assault and battery charge stemming from the stiletto attack last November at Chez Joey, a Myrtle Beach gentlemen’s club.

Wright, seen at right, was sentenced to six days in jail and ordered to pay fines and court costs totaling $173.90.

According to a police report, Wright battered Ashley Michaels-Hoder, 24, inside a strip club bathroom around 2 AM. Michaels-Hoder told cops that Wright first grabbed her by the hair and then “began striking her with a clear plastic high-heeled shoe that was in her left hand.”

Michaels-Hoder said that when she managed to lift her head, Wright “struck her multiple times in the face with the same shoe.” Investigators interviewed Michaels-Hoder at a Myrtle Beach hospital, where she was being treated for a swollen left eye, swelling to her forehead, and puncture wounds that an attending physician said would require staples.

Wright’s arrest for the bloody stiletto assault was her third collar of 2014. She had previously been nabbed for disorderly conduct and assault, and served short jail sentences in both cases. (3 pages)