A New Jersey judge has landed in hot water for suggesting to a female plaintiff that she peddle nude photos of herself to Playboy.

Middlesex County Judge Alberto Rivas was overseeing the woman’s complaint against her boyfriend’s wife, who the gal pal said had the X-rated snaps she’d sent to her married lover, the defendant’s husband.

The mistress claimed that the wife had already sent the racy snaps to her workplace and that she feared they also would be shared on social media as part of a revenge-porn bid.

Rivas took to task all three players — the mistress, the cheating husband and the wife — and ripped the girlfriend for even sending the nudies to her lover in the first place.

“I will give you a piece of advice, J.V.,’’ the judge said, according to a court transcript, which only identified the trio by their initials.

“The only person you should be sending naked pictures to are [sic] Hugh Hefner. He will pay you $100,000 for the use of them.”

The steamed judge suggested that the girlfriend leaked the photos herself to set the wife up.

When the girlfriend denied even knowing where the other woman worked, Rivas snapped back, “Baloney.”

“If you’re screwing him — let’s be frank now, because I should not be wasting judicial resources on this kind of malarkey. If you have been screwing him for these years, there’s no question that you know where she works,’’ he said.

“That’s how affairs work. This is not someone you just met. There’s not a question on the table, so don’t speak.’’

To the wife, the judge said, “I would suggest divorce, and take half his pension. That’s an option you have, having sat in Family Court. You can take his pension.

“Your problem is with that knucklehead,’’ he said.

“But it’s clear that you folks have been involved in a triangle, and kind of like the Bermuda Triangle, it’s deadly.

“And you two ladies have let yourselves get played by this guy. Who I’m not going to call him a man, because he does not deserve that title. This homo sapien.’’

Rivas added to the husband, a corrections officer, “I wish you were up here, because I’m gunning for you, because you are despicable.’’

And to the trio, he said, “If you three have not figured out that I’m here just dying to whack one of you, just dying to whack one of you, come back. Come back. Your mistake was coming into my courtroom.’’

The judge’s equal-opportunity bashing prompted a complaint to the state Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct this week.



In a statement released by court officials, Rivas said, “I regret the comments I made during the proceeding.

“I felt the court was being manipulated, but I let my feelings about the case influence my language, tone and demeanor, all of which were inappropriate.”

The Administrative Office of the Courts said it will hold a formal hearing on the judge’s behavior.