The 23-year-old Rodrigues, a former exotic dancer who hails from Brazil and met Gatti, 37 when he died, at a strip club in northern New Jersey, was charged last Sunday in his killing.
Montreal’s Gatti was found dead last Saturday in Apartment 6305 at the Dorisol condominium hotel along the yellow-sand beaches of Brazil’s Porto de Galinhas. Police say he had been strangled with a purse strap while passed out in a drunken slumber.
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Skowronski said Gatti dated numerous strippers, so he thought little of it when Gatti called him all excited about meeting Rodrigues at The Squeeze Lounge in Weehawken, N.J. He thought Rodrigues, like the others, wouldn’t last.
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When Rodrigues first arrived, she was embraced by the Gatti family and friends. For a long time Gatti hid that his wife had been a stripper, and friends say he defended her even as her relations with them soured.

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