New York City’s private, fancypants Horace Mann School is now beset with yet another sex-filled scandal.
This one is a revenge porn scenario allegedly involving Canh Oxelson, the director of the exclusive school’s college counseling unit. Police arrested Oxelson, 42, this week and charged him with threatening to send nude photographs of his 28-year-old ex-girlfriend to her employer, reports the New York Post.
Oh by the way, Oxelson is a professional Tiger Woods impersonator who has spent the last decade or so performing as a facsimile of the legendary, floozy-loving golfer.
Oxelson’s ex-girlfriend, Minochy Delanois, is a nurse at New York University’s Langone Medical Center.
Delanois had been dating Oxelson for six months when, she claims, he went berserk. On Feb. 3, he allegedly texted menacing messages to Delanois with nude images of herself attached.
“Good luck loser,” read one of the texts, according to the criminal complaint lodged against Oxelson.
“Can’t wait for folks to see this one,” said another text.
Oxelson, a graduate of Harvard University, was an NCAA swimming champion in his younger days. Before that, in 1975, he was among 57 orphans airlifted out of Saigon just as South Vietnam fell to the communists.
Oxelson’s career as a Tiger Woods impersonator was going swell until about 2011 when Woods’s personal life and his public image cratered over charges of breathtaking marital infidelity. Turns out, the market for America’s best Tiger Woods knockoff also cratered precipitously. Consequently, Oxelson took a job as a college counselor at hoighty-toighty Horace Mann.
After getting arrested at his apartment on the Upper West Side and spending a night in jail earlier this week, Oxelson is once again working (with pay) but from home, according to a spokesman from Horace Mann. He won’t be allowed on the school’s Bronx campus until further notice.
Meanwhile, Oxelson’s attorney, Andrea Weiss, has declared that her client is innocent.
“Mr. Oxelson denies all of the charges in the complaint,” Weiss told the Post. “The evidence at trial will show that the allegations are not true.”
The absolute last thing Horace Mann is another scandal. The preposterously expensive prep school, where the annual cost of tuition is a whopping $41,150 per student, is already associated with so many humiliating scandals that it’s hard to keep count.
In March 2013, reports The New York Times, school officials agreed to a huge set of financial settlements with a stream of alumni who suffered sexual abuse over the course of at least three decades while they were enrolled at the school. One of the victims committed suicide, notes the Daily News.
Then, in October 2013, some shadowy wrecker sabotaged the college applications of a Horace Mann student.
“Someone in our community sent a letter about a current senior to a number of colleges with the goal of damaging that student’s prospects for admission,” Oxelson wrote at the time in a stern serious letter to the parents of Horace Mann seniors.
“I have never witnessed anything so disrespectful,” he added.
In November 2013, reports the Post, the ritzy school again came under scrutiny because some students were renting out venue space and holding debauchery-filled “rando-fests” where the goal was show up wasted and hook up with random drunk girls.
All this humiliation heaped upon Horace Mann is taking its toll, More and more, Manhattan’s ultra-wealthy parents are seeking to avoid the posh school at all costs.
“No parent wants to deal with a school that has this much weird stuff going on,” Amanda Uhry, an adviser who helps parents navigate the thicket of New York City’s private school-admissions process, told Andrea Pesyer of the Post.
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