The sultry Swiss stripper accused of plotting to murder her sugar daddy’s estranged wife and frame him for it broke down in tears, blurting out, “I didn’t mean to hurt you,” when he paid a surprise visit to her in a locked Queens psychiatric ward, The Post has learned.
“She was crying like a baby, and she said she was sorry,” a source said of luscious Line Grosjean’s meeting with wealthy Manhattan lawyer Sanford Asher Thursday night at Elmhurst Hospital, where she was being held after a suicide attempt.
“She kept telling him, ‘I didn’t mean to hurt you.'”
Cops allowed Asher to visit in hopes that his appearance would prompt her to reveal more about the scheme.
The 19-year-old buxom brunette beauty has confessed that she had recruited the help of ex-boyfriend James Johnerson, giving him $10,000 for hit men to kill Jayne Asher and plant the lawyer’s eyeglasses at the crime scene.
The scheming stripper believed that with Asher’s wife rubbed out, she would pocket his millions and also be free of the 56-year-old attorney, who would be in prison.
But instead of hiring a hit man, Johnerson, 31, betrayed Grosjean and began playing both sides for cash, which included trying to sell Jayne revealing photos of the bald barrister and the buxom brunette for $4,000.
The murder scheme unraveled earlier this week when Johnerson tried to muscle Sanford for $25,000 in return for proof of the scheme, during a meeting at Grand Central Terminal.
A suspicious Sanford then had his computer swept and found incriminating e-mails in which the gorgeous go-go girl detailed the plot.
After falling head over heels for Grosjean 15 months ago when she worked at the all-nude Paradise Club in Midtown, Sanford dumped his wife and set up a love nest with his Swiss Miss in a posh East Side apartment building.
Grosjean, who received an 11-carat diamond engagement ring from her sugar daddy, was ordered held without bail at her arraignment this morning. A judge denied her lawyer’s request she be freed on $10,000 bail.
Both Grosjean and Johnerson were charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
If convicted, each faces up to 25 years in prison.
Adding insult to injury, Sanford – who’s involved in a bitter divorce battle with Jayne – was ordered last week to pay his estranged wife $60,000 a month in support.
Neither Sanford nor Jayne Asher returned calls for comment yesterday.