NYC hires Elon Musk attorney to rep Mayor Eric Adams in sexual assault lawsuit - and taxpayers can expect the bill to run at $2,000-per-HOUR

New York's taxpayers will foot the bill for one of America's most expensive celebrity lawyers to help city mayor Eric Adams fight sexual assault allegations.

Alex Spiro, who made his name defending clients including X boss Elon Musk, Jay-Z and Alec Baldwin, will defend the mayor against claims he forced oral sex on a female colleague when they were serving together in the NYPD in 1993.

Adams has denied the claims by Lorna Beach-Mathura, 67, insisting he has never met her, but has been accused of misusing taxpayers' money to pay a lawyer who typically charges $2,000 an hour.

'It's time for politicians to be held to the same standard as normal working men and women who, when accused of misconduct, have to pay their own lawyers,' sexual harassment lawyer Douglas Wigdor told Gothamist.

Colleagues of Alex Spiro described the Miami-based celebrity lawyer as a 'force of nature'

New York Mayor Eric Adams insists he has never met his accuser but has been accused of misusing taxpayers' money to pay a lawyer who typically charges $2,000 an hour

Adams (pictured in 1993) was 33 at the time of the alleged sexual assault, and was the head of the NYPD Transit Bureau's Guardians Association, an inter-police organization for black employees 

Beach-Mathura, 67, alleged in a court filing last month that Adams, 63, offered to help her get a promotion in his capacity as head of the Guardians Association, an inter-police organization to help black employees.

According to the lawsuit, Adams drove Beach-Mathura to a vacant lot to speak about the promotion, before telling her that he also 'needed a favor' from her.

He then allegedly tried to force her into oral sex, but when she refused, he masturbated on her from inside the car, the lawsuit claimed.

Spiro claims he has never lost a case before a jury and that his 'instincts are often to rally behind people that are under attack'.

A fellow lawyer described Spiro as 'a force of nature' when he was hired to defend Baldwin against manslaughter allegations stemming from the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust in 2021.

Lorna Beach-Mathura, 67, alleges alleges sexual assault, infliction of emotional distress, sexual harassment and retaliation

'The prosecutors in New Mexico have no idea what they're in for,' he added.

The Miami-based attorney began his career at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office as an assistant DA after graduating from Harvard.

He has helped Musk secure control of Twitter and defended New England Patriots boss Robert Kraft against allegations of soliciting prostitution at a massage parlor in Florida.

Beach-Mathura's court filing alleges sexual assault, infliction of emotional distress, sexual harassment and retaliation, which she says came after reporting the incident.

She also alleges gender discrimination, and alleges that her career in the police department was severely hampered by being a black woman.

After beginning her law enforcement career in 1981 in the NYPD Transit Bureau, she claims she was repeatedly passed over for promotions and was discriminated against.

After becoming frustrated after an NYPD official allegedly told her that she would have to transfer to ever be promoted, she went to Adams, then-33, in his capacity as Guardians head, for help.

In scathing wording in the lawsuit, it is claimed that Adams 'preyed on her perceived vulnerability, demanding a quid pro quo sexual favor and sexually assaulting Plaintiff, revealing himself not to be the 'Guardian' he purported to be, but a predator.'

She claims that Adams picked her up after work, while he was still purportedly on duty, and drove her to an empty parking lot.

Adams pictured when he was a lieutenant decades ago. The lawsuit scathingly says that he revealed 'himself not to be the 'Guardian' he purported to be, but a predator' 

Although she thought it was unnerving, his status as a high-ranking Guardians leader and police officer reassured her - until he 'requested oral sex from her', the lawsuit claimed.

'While repeatedly cajoling, demanding, and begging Plaintiff for oral sex, Defendant Adams unzipped his pants and pulled out his erect penis,' the filing continued.

The suit was filed in November under New York's Adult Survivors Act which suspended the statute of limitations for claims of historic sexual assault.

Spiro said he would be appearing as a co-counsel for the Mayor when the case is heard at the New York's Supreme Court, and the city's law department confirmed it had retained his firm.

'We retained the firm of Quinn Emanuel to serve as co-counsel to assist us in representing the city and the mayor in this case to ensure the Law Department can maximize its existing resources on our numerous other matters,' a spokesperson added.