Priest who allowed Sabrina Carpenter to shoot sexy music video in church is stripped of duties

A Brooklyn clergyman who allowed popular prima Sabrina Carpenter to movie her raunchy 'Feather' euphony video successful a ineffable religion has been stripped of his duties.

Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello was dramatically relieved of each pastoral oversight astatine Our Lady of Mount Carmel – Annunciation Parish aft a bombshell probe revealed alleged fiscal misconduct.

Bishop Robert Brennan claimed that Gigantiello made unauthorized currency transfers to a erstwhile apical adjutant of New York City Mayor Eric Adams - a interaction present embroiled successful his ain corruption probe.

'I americium saddened to stock that investigations conducted by Alvarez & Marsal and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP person uncovered grounds of superior violations of Diocesan policies and protocols astatine Our Lady of Mount Carmel – Annunciation Parish,' the bishop said.

Another religion authoritative has already been elected to instrumentality implicit power of the parish.

'In bid to safeguard the nationalist spot and to support religion funds, I person appointed Bishop Witold Mroziewski arsenic head of the Parish,' Brennan revealed.

The reappraisal besides revealed different alleged instances of administrative impropriety with Gigantiello utilizing the religion recognition paper for 'substantial' idiosyncratic expenses.

It was besides revealed that Gigantiello secretly recorded a deacon making racist and violative comments astatine his ain church.

The disgraced clergyman was caught allegedly transferring a staggering $1.9 cardinal of parish funds to a instrumentality steadfast without diocesan approval.

Church records amusement Gigantiello moved $1 cardinal to Carone's instrumentality steadfast Abrams Fensterman LLP successful January 2019, with different $900,000 transferred successful August and November 2021 - each without authoritative oversight, the New York Post reported.

But his lawyer, Arthur Aidala, desperately tried to support the priest, claiming the transfers were 'investments' and not loans and helium did not maltreatment his recognition paper privileges.

'The bishop relieved him of his fiscal duties, not pastoral duties,' Aidala told the Post.

'The recognition paper is portion of his compensation package,' helium added.

The priest's downfall comes months aft Carpenter's provocative euphony video sprout past November sparked wide criticism.

 The steamy scenes changeable wrong the hallowed religion sanctuary.

Gigantiello called his determination to let the euphony video a 'lapse successful judgment' successful a letter to parishioners past November, and said helium wasn't contiguous astatine the clip and wasn't alert astatine the grade of it.

At the time, Brennan criticized Carpenter's video for her opus 'Feather,' which was filmed astatine the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church.

In the video, Carpenter, 25, wears exclusively racy outfits arsenic she watches respective men who wronged her die.

At 1 point, she struts into the religion to be a ceremonial for the dormant men, wherever she moves done a fig of pastel coffins, 1 of which includes the inscription 'RIP B****.'

The section bishop was horrified by the contents of the video and made known his displeasure with the section parish that failed to forestall its filming.

His connection read: 'The parish did not travel diocesan argumentation regarding the filming connected Church property, which includes a reappraisal of the scenes and script.'

The parish archetypal claimed the accumulation institution 'failed to accurately correspond the video content,' but an probe recovered that the documents fixed to the parish provided capable statement of 'inappropriate behaviour unsuitable for a religion sanctuary.'