Lawyer for Trump's campaign manager once bit a stripper and drew blood

Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged with simple battery on Tuesday after a March 8 incident in which Lewandowski appeared to grab a reporter at the Trump National Golf Club in Florida.

Following the incident, the reporter, Michelle Fields, tweeted a picture of the bruises on her arm. Lewandowski, 41, denied touching her, calling her "delusional."  

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On Tuesday, Trump's campaign released a statement denying the charges and named the two lawyers who will be defending him.

One of them, Kendall Coffey, is a former U.S. attorney who resigned after biting a stripper.

Coffey, who also represented Vice President Al Gore in the contested 2000 presidential election, has had a long career as an attorney and a media commentator, appearing on the major television networks as a legal analyst.

But an incident at Lipstik, a strip club in Miami, has cast something of a shadow on his career. First reported on by the Miami Herald and later detailed in an 2000 article Salon article by Jake Tapper, Coffey went out one night at the Lipstik club where he met "Tiffany," a dancer who accompanied him to a back room.

According to an investigation by the Miami Herald, Coffey soon struck up a conversation with “Tiffany,” a thin, blond former bank teller, then 28, whose real name is Tamara Gutierrez.

Coffey bought $200 in “Lipstik money,” used to pay the dancers for private sessions and lap dances in the fabled “champagne room.” With that destination on his itinerary, Coffey also purchased a $900 magnum of Dom Perignon.

But things reportedly went off the rails soon after.

Things got a little hairy, however, when Coffey decided to try to kiss Tiffany on the lips. She didn’t want him to, and when she tried to wriggle away, he bit her left arm, only not so affectionately this time. He broke the skin and drew blood.

Tiffany screamed.

A bouncer and the night manager loaded Coffey head-first into a cab.

Coffey initially denied biting Tiffany, but a subsequent investigation found otherwise. 

It's unclear if charges were ever filed but Coffey was eventually summoned to a meeting in Washington with Attorney General Janet Reno, and a day later, he resigned. 

"The strain on my family has been so great, I am returning to private practice and I owe it to my family to do this," he said to the press.

Mashable reached out for comment from Coffey but didn't hear back. We'll update if and when we do.

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