A 39-year-old Long Island dancer is suing a married Lindenhurst family physician for $1 million, alleging he threatened her after their affair ended, while he claims she menaced him with a photo of a handgun that she says was actually a poster from the movie Scarface. Rosana Kissoon filed the civil complaint in Suffolk County Supreme Court against Dr. Keith Hoerning and his wife, Nicole Hoerning, after what both sides describe as an 18-month extramarital relationship that unraveled in dramatic fashion this spring.
Kissoon met Hoerning at a Long Island gentlemen's club in late 2024, and the affair that followed ran roughly a year and a half before collapsing in May, according to reporting by the New York Post. Hoerning, 51, has run Doctors Care Family Medicine in Lindenhurst for more than 18 years and is a board-certified family physician who completed his residency as chief medical resident at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, according to his Healthgrades profile. He and Nicole Hoerning own a $900,000 home in Greenlawn, per the Post's reporting, and both are named defendants in Kissoon's lawsuit.
A Cease-and-Desist Letter, Then More Texts
The timeline at the center of the case is disputed. According to lawsuit filings, Hoerning's attorney sent Kissoon a cease-and-desist letter on May 15, 2026, demanding she stop contacting him or his family. Yet the filings allege Hoerning himself kept reaching out afterward, sending her a family photograph via WhatsApp on May 17 and, a week later, messages reading “So hot! See u soon” and “Miss u already.”
Kissoon's attorney, Michael Treanor, has pointed to that continued contact as evidence that Hoerning maintained an affectionate relationship with his client even after formally warning her away through counsel. The Post reports Hoerning also sent what it described as fawning “I love you” texts to Kissoon during the relationship, and that he provided her substantial financial support, with cash allegedly flowing to her voluntarily throughout the affair, per the lawsuit.
Everything changed, according to the lawsuit, after Kissoon called Nicole Hoerning in May 2026 to tell her about the affair. Court filings indicate that call came on May 26, the same day Hoerning allegedly made around 18 outgoing calls to Kissoon's cellphone. The very next day, May 27, Hoerning filed a criminal complaint with the Suffolk County Police Department alleging aggravated harassment against Kissoon and also filed a sworn family offense petition against her.
Dueling Claims Over Guns, Theft and a Movie Poster
In his sworn statements, Hoerning accused Kissoon of felony theft and attempted assault, and claimed she threatened to rip his wife's face off and to send people to beat him and his family, according to the lawsuit's account of his filings. He also claimed, per his sworn statement, that Kissoon told him she had a license to use a handgun. But a police records query cited in court documents reportedly returned a negative result for any pistol license under Kissoon's name.
Central to the dispute is a photograph Hoerning apparently pointed to as evidence Kissoon threatened him with a gun. Kissoon contends, per the lawsuit, that the image was nothing more than a Scarface movie poster showing Al Pacino holding a prop firearm, and she maintains that no photograph of an actual gun was ever sent. The lawsuit also alleges that Hoerning's court paperwork failed to mention any stolen item or physical attack, despite his felony theft and assault accusations.
Attorneys Trade Accusations of Blackmail and Retaliation
Defense attorney Bruce Barket, representing both Keith and Nicole Hoerning, has framed the lawsuit as retaliation for a failed extortion attempt. “A man makes an error and is blackmailed,” Barket told reporters, according to the Daily Mail. “This stripper is different because she had the audacity to file a lawsuit.” Barket's characterization casts the entire matter as what he has called a heartless kiss-and-tell extortion plot.
Treanor rejects that framing entirely. He says the fallout from the dispute cost Kissoon her daytime job at a healthcare facility, forced her into counseling, and caused severe emotional distress, according to the same outlet's report. Nicole Hoerning has declined to comment on the lawsuit or on her current relationship with her husband.
What's at Stake Legally
The case lands in Suffolk County Supreme Court, which serves as the trial court of general original jurisdiction for major civil disputes like Kissoon's $1 million tort claim. It is not the first time Hoerning has appeared in that courthouse; he was previously a defendant in the 2018 civil action Sarala Reddy v. Keith Hoerning.
Beyond the civil suit, both sides face potential exposure tied to New York's criminal statutes. Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree, the offense Hoerning alleged in his police complaint, is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Separately, Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Third Degree — knowingly giving false statements to police about an alleged crime — carries the same potential penalty, a detail that looms over the dispute given Kissoon's claim that key elements of Hoerning's sworn complaint do not hold up. Whether Suffolk County prosecutors or police ultimately pursue charges against either party over the harassment allegations or the disputed police report remains an open question.
