I’m Not A Wife Beater But I Play One On . . .

Models posing as wife beaters are suing to have their images taken down:

If you see Christopher Dorm, Triple Edwards, Daniel Royer or Javier Velarde around town, chances are you’ll recognize them as wife-beaters.

They’re not – they’re actually male models who posed in a domestic violence ad campaign in 2002.

They were told the ads would be up for five weeks, but some are still on display – leading to a $4 million suit demanding that the city take all the posters down.

The ads showed each of the men with captions such as “Employee of the Month. Soccer Coach. Wife Beater” or “Successful Executive. Devoted Churchgoer. Abusive Husband.”

And just as life can imitate Seinfeld or Law & Order, the Daily News makes the case that it also can imitate Friends. Say it ain’t so!

The lawsuit is reminiscent of a “Friends” episode that has the character Joey pose as someone with VD for a public health campaign, leading his family and potential dates to think he has the disease.

And like an episode of a television sitcom, the quartet’s friends and acquaintances “believed they had been arrested for domestic violence or were otherwise actual ‘women beaters,'” according to court papers. “In the advertisements, which appear in several different languages and which are deliberately unflattering, each plaintiff is displayed behind bars with a sullen expression and is described as a domestic abuser,” the suit says.