Melissa Berry’s career had just taken off. Once merely a run-of-the-mill stripper at Tampa’s Thee Dollhouse, she’d just landed a coveted position on the Tampa Breeze, one of the entries of the soon-defunct soon-to-launch Lingerie Football League.

Then she met “healthy dating and sexual assault” expert Mark Dawson.

The 25-year-old Berry started dating the 45-year-old Dawson, who based on his apparent career as relationship expert probably seemed a safe bet at the time.

Yeah, and so did the stock market 3 months ago. (More photos of Ms. Berry after the jump.) Read more…