WEST HOLLYWOOD—Two men who pleaded to stalking West Hollywood esthetician Dawn DaLuise were sentenced on Thursday, November 17 to 350 hours of community service, and 3 years of probation, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced.
Nicholas Prugo, 26, and Edward Feinstein, 32, were sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan. Both defendants were ordered to stay away from the victim and her two daughters, and have not contact with each other for 10 years.
Both Prugo and Feinstein allegedly posted an ad on January 22, 2014, on Craigslist to solicit men to go to Daluise’s home to rape her and stalk her two daughters after a dispute. The scheme transpired between December 1, 2013 and April 1, 2014.
Prugo was convicted in the ‘Bling Ring’ case, which involved several teens who burglaries a series of celebrity homes in the Hollywood Hills region. Prugo was the leader of the ‘Bling Ring’ who stole over $3 million if merchandise and cash from celebrity homes including Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. He spent a year behind bars for his involvement in the burglaries.
DaLuise was charged with one count of solicitation of murder in March 2014, after she allegedly solicited someone to kill a rival esthetician, Gabriel Suarez who opened a skin care business in the same region as her business, Skin Refinery Beauty salon between January 22, 2014 and February 12, 2014.
DaLuise was convinced that Suarez was involved in the ads posted about her on Craigslist, along with fliers plastered across West Hollywood, soliciting sex at her home, noted authorities. She was jailed for over 10 months before a California jury acquitted her in January 2015. She insisted at her trial that the texts and emails sent to police by Feinstein were mainly venting and were taken out of context, authorities reported. Her client list once included celebrities like Nicki Minaj, Jennifer Aniston and Alicia Silverstone.
Both Prugo and Feinstein pleaded no contest in September 2016 to one misdemeanor count of stalking. The judge reduced the charge from a felony and dismissed the felony solicitation for rape count, noting insufficient evident to proceed. The case was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Fraud and Cyber Crimes team.
