#Teacher Jamie Hodges says false allegations ‘destroyed’ his career

An Irish dancing champ claims competitors stomped all over his teaching career by falsely accusing him of sending an explicit video to underage girls.

Jamie Hodges, 32, a five-time world champion who was set to open his first Irish dance summer camp in the New York-New Jersey region this summer, claims a fellow teacher “completely destroyed” his career, according to a lawsuit.

Hodges’ “On the Move” has taught kids around the world and was set to sell out its inaugural summer effort when Molly Lutwin of Syracuse, who runs Francis Academy of Irish Dance, charged “On the Move” sent a bizarre clip of a naked woman to two of her students.

The woman in the illicit video allegedly had a cartoon or “CGI baby” over her “private parts,” according to the litigation.

The girls, both under 14, were running their own Irish dance Instagram account and had agreed to upload an “On the Move” promotional vid when they allegedly received the “sexually explicit” file instead.

It’s all an “outrageous and completely false assertion,” Hodges insists in a Manhattan Federal Court defamation lawsuit against Lutwin, her school, and the Irish Dance Teachers Association of North America.

“On the Move did not send any such video and did not send any such video to any girls,” according to court papers, which seek unspecified damages.

Despite a rep for the association claiming an investigation of the matter was quickly closed, association official James Early read Lutwin’s allegations out loud at an annual January meeting to hundreds of fellow instructors in Saddle Brook, N.J., Hodges alleges.

The move constituted “character assassination,” Hodges said in the lawsuit.

Lutwin also repeated the charge to Irish dance teachers in England, where Hodges lives, he says.

The entire episode is fabricated, contends Hodges, who said no one even bothered to report the alleged impropriety to Instagram. It’s unclear if the incident was shared with law enforcement.

“Mr. Hodges’ reputation was unfairly destroyed by accusations that are completely untrue,” his lawyer, Tom Fini, said in a statement.