The mannequins dressed in sexy lingerie used in an Easter display outside a Clifton dentist's office were offensive to one woman who took the display down with garden shears on Tuesday.

While a local New York City news crew was filming the Grove Street Easter display at 1 p.m., a woman who said her name was Desire Mozek and lives in the area, took the display down.

Clifton police are investigating the vandalism and as of Tuesday afternoon, were still looking for the woman.

WPIX camera operator Andrew Ramos said the woman first walked by with her dog and made a comment that she would return to take it down. Shortly after, she did just that. The mannequins, who had caused some excitement the day before with their lingerie and colorful wigs and bunny ears, now are in piles in the dentist's garage.

Area resident Cheryl Lueddek, said the woman had no right to do that to the display.

"It's absurd," she said. "You can't do that to people."

The mannequins were dressed in fishnet stockings, sexy lingerie and colorful wigs with bunny ears holding Easter baskets on the front lawn of Wayne Gangi's Grove Street dental office. The display had upset some, while many thought it was funny.

Gangi said he thinks the woman who destroyed the display appears to have been seeking attention rather than justice due to moral outrage.

"She curtsied at the end" and her actions were caught on a news reporter's camera, Gangi said.

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The damage, Gangi said, runs between $500 and $1,000. He said he is seeking a restraining order against the woman who lives across the street from his office.

At Desire's home, the door was answered by Tom Mozek. He said Desire is not his wife and her name is Desire Shepstone. She and her son live in the home with him, Mozek said, adding she was not available to speak to the press.

"I told her don't do it," he said, adding she did it anyway. "She has to take responsibility for it."

Mazek said he has never met Gangi and doesn't want to get on his bad side.

"I like the guy," he said. "I don't like what she did."

Mazek agreed with Gangi and said Desire was seeking attention and was not outraged.

The display, which he called a "spoof," will be back up as soon as possible, Gangi said.

He said the idea came to him as he walked around Party City and saw the giant Easter eggs.

Remembering how as a "kid" he liked the Playboy Bunnies, he thought the display would be funny.

"This one came back to bite me," Gangi said in his garage where mannequin legs, arms, heads with colorful wigs and headless torsos were piled in a heap. He said he knew some people were unhappy with the display but didn't anticipate the vandalism. He said he received one "crazy letter" from someone who called him an "ignorant pig."

The five mannequins, which neighbors said first appeared on the grass lawn in front of Wayne Gangi's Grove Street dental office as part of a Valentine's Day display, soon returned dressed in green for St. Patrick's Day. With a wardrobe change and the addition of the pastel-colored wigs and bunny ears, the mannequins returned to celebrate Easter.

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One mannequin was missing an arm, which Gangi said was stolen while they were dressed in green for St. Patrick's Day.

"Someone took it," Gangi said.

About the spider that had been hanging above the Easter display, Gangi said it was up since Halloween. He said he hired people to take the fall display down but they couldn't reach the spider and left it up.

The mannequins, like the spider, were once part of his Halloween displays, but were put away for several years until a patient asked him to bring them back out.

The patient, Gangi said, asked him: "How come you never put the pretty ladies on your lawn anymore?" They returned to the lawn soon after.

The display earned the dentist the nickname "Hugh Hefner" — the founder of Playboy, who often was photographed with Playboy Bunnies.

Gangi's office, at the corner of Robin Hood Road, is no stranger to holiday decoration controversy. In the past, his elaborate Halloween and Christmas decorations have drawn criticism as well as lots of visitors and praise.

In 2012, the dentist's display of bloody corpses, skeletons and furry spiders that covered his building and property at 562 Grove St. attracted lots of visitors as well as a parking-ticket blitz, because Clifton police cracked down on what they called traffic hazards. Gangi was not happy and threatened to put an end to the decorations. He has not.