An amorous couple was caught having sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral - with tourists and worshipers as little as five feet away - as a stunt for the infamously raunchy "Opie and Anthony" radio show yesterday, police said.
An usher at the church at first thought Brian Florence, 37, was urinating, but when the usher got closer, he saw Florence zipping up his pants and his girlfriend, Loretta Lynn Harper, 35, naked from her waist to her knees, police said.
Near the couple stood Paul Mercurio, a comedian who apparently was using his cell phone to transmit the encounter over the airwaves for the Opie and Anthony show, an afternoon show on WNEW/102.7, according to police.
The Virginia couple-he's from Quantico and she's from Alexandria-were charged with public lewdness.
Mercurio, 42, of the Upper East Side, was charged with acting in concert in furtherance of public lewdness.