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    Cyndi Lauper’s son name-drops pop-star mom, hit song during gun arrest: court docs

    By Kyle Schnitzer,

    8 hours ago

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    Cyndi Lauper’s troubled son name dropped his legendary pop-star mom and her hit single “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” when he was arrested on gun possession charges stemming from a Harlem shooting earlier this year, new court papers show.

    Aspiring rapper Declyn “Dex” Lauper begged police to call his mother after the discovery of a loaded gun in his fanny pack on Feb. 7 — and even tried to make sure they knew who she was by reminding officers of the singer’s trademark 1983 hit.

    “I grew up, my mom is Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Lauper allegedly told a detective, according to new information revealed as the pop scion pleaded not guilty to gun possession charges Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

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    Declyn Lauper name dropped his mom and pop-star Cyndi Lauper during police interviews when he was arrested on gun possession charges earlier this year. Gabriella Bass

    “Mostly my head is in the right place, it’s my music,” he also told cops after the bust. “No, I was asking people to call my mom and call my life coach.”

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    Lauper, who appeared in court with a towering bodyguard claiming to be Andre the Giant’s nephew, was caught with a loaded Glock .48 caliber handgun on 112th Street in Harlem, near where his 24-year-old pal had just been shot in the leg by a group of five gunmen, prosecutors have said.

    The 28-year-old told police that having “guns in everybody’s face” wasn’t anything new to him because it was apparently normal coming from his background.

    “All I know is I look up and there’s guns in everybody’s face,” Lauper said, according to the newly released documents. “It’s not really my first rodeo, coming from my family that I come from. And my mom and uncles and all that. So I was calm bro.”

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    The blabbermouth — who claims the gun wasn’t his — also bizarrely bragged about his wealth, telling cops that he was wearing a $20,000 necklace was footing the legal fees for his bullet-stricken friend, court papers say.

    “I ain’t going to lie for you, I paid for his lawyer, so he took that bullet for me,” said Lauper said, who avoided Rikers Island after his “Law & Order” actor dad, David Thornton, bailed him out with $20,000 cash at his criminal arraignment.

    Meanwhile, the skinny Lauper, wearing a white Versace shirt in court,  looked dwarfed standing next to his giant 7-foot bodyguard. He told The Post that he is related to Andre Rene Roussimoff — the 7-foot-4, 500-pound former wrestling superstar who appeared in Cyndi Lauper’s music video for 1985 hit “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough.”

    Lauper — who took a plea deal and avoided jail time for a stealing a Mercedes outside another rapper’s memorial in 2022 — declined to take Manhattan prosecutors’ up on a plea to the top charge recommending 3 1/2 years in prison and five years post-release supervision at his Supreme Court arraignment.

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    The troubled son of the music icon pleaded not guilty Wednesday to gun possession charges in Manhattan Supreme Court. WireImage
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    Declyn Lauper faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the top charge. Gabriella Bass

    He faces other legal woes including possible eviction from his posh $7,200-a-month one-bedroom Financial District apartment for being a neighbor from hell for blasting thumping music, late-night screaming and smoking too much weed , according to a civil court filing in April.

    In May, Lauper was hit with a sexual assault lawsuit by a former gal pal who claims he attacked her after inviting her to his Manhattan apartment four years ago.

    He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

    Lauper is due to return to court on October 1.

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