UPDATE: Campaign spokesman for Mayor Healy says voters don't care about naked photos from eight years ago.

So you think you've heard all Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy had to say about the naked pictures of himself, slumped on the stoop of his Ferry Street home, that surfaced shortly before the November 2004 special election? Well, think again.

Star-Ledger columnist Tom Moran reports today that Healy has offered new details about the photos that comes, in Moran's words, "with a bizarre sexual twist."

According to the version offered to Moran, Healy said three young women woke him up by banging trash cans outside his house, so he rose from bed, wrapped a towel around himself, and went to investigate.



"Three Hispanic girls, young kids," Healy is quoted as saying. "So I go out on the porch and they pulled the towel off me. Now I start laughing, and then they started doing other stuff. I said, 'I'm old enough to be your grandfather.' "

“It was filthy,” he says. “I chased them away, and I just sat down.”

Healy said that was when a political enemy snapped the photograph.



In October, 2004, The Jersey Journal ran a story quoting then-Healy spokeswoman Maria Pignataro saying Healy had returned home after having several drinks at a party and was about to go to bed around 3 a.m. when he heard a commotion outside his house. He went to investigate and the the photo was snapped, there was no mention of "three Hispanic girls."

One of Healy's neighbors said he took the photos after he spotted Healy sitting on his front porch in his birthday suit, The Jersey Journal reported. .



Earlier in October 2004, Healy couldn't quite explain what happened to the New York Times. ''I wish I recall how I got back out there ... but I don't," he told the Times, which also reported that Healy acknowledged he had consumed six to eight beers the night of the incident over a three-hour period.



While Moran said that he has no idea why Healy offered these new details, he speculates the new explanation is evidence the mayor is losing his touch under pressure from "Whiz kid" Councilman Steven Fulop, 36, the mayor's main contender in the upcoming May 14 election..