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Art historian pleads guilty to taking pictures of women in dressing room

A Manhattan judge sentenced a remorseful former New York University art history professor to five years probation Wednesday for using his iPhone to film two young women as they tried on clothes at a West Village boutique.

“Peeping Prof” Ross Finocchio, 35, copped to two counts of felony unlawful surveillance in Manhattan Supreme Court last April as part of a no-jail plea deal. He must continue to attend therapy.

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