BLOODY BIAS
Heiress cuffed in bash
MILLIONAIRE NFL heiress Jacqueline Kent Cooke allegedly got blitzed on New Year’s Eve, spewed anti-Semitic remarks in a Manhattan restaurant and then bashed a man bloody with her glass purse when he confronted her outside, the Daily News has learned.
Matthew Haberkorn, a 52-year-old lawyer from the San Francisco Bay Area, told The News that Cooke caused two gashes on the right side of his head after winging her $300 Lulu Guinness Chloe Mirrored Perspex Box Clutch at him during the sidewalk skirmish.
Cooke, the daughter of late Washington franchise owner Jack Kent Cooke, was arrested over the accusations.
Haberkorn said it all started shortly after he finished a meal with his 77-year-old mom, his wife and their four daughters at Caravaggio on E. 74th St. near Madison Ave., a high-end eatery boasting $55 veal chops.
He said they were collecting their belongings at the coat check when Cooke, who was behind them in line, got annoyed and belligerent.
“Hurry up, Jew,” Cooke allegedly spat, according to Haberkorn.
“What did you say?” Haberkorn’s wife, Linda Thomas, asked.
“Hurry up, Jew. I got places to be,” Cooke, 29, allegedly repeated.
“We all got places to be,” Thomas said she shot back. “You know what? I take total offense at that. You’re small-minded.”
As the situation escalated, Cooke’s boyfriend allegedly chimed in with his own offensive remark.
“Happy bat mitzvah, girls,” he said to the daughters, according to Thomas and Haberkorn.
“We were so surprised that on the Upper East Side that this would happen,” Thomas told The News.
Haberkorn said he went outside and confronted Cooke over the hate speech.
“I walked up to her and asked her why she said that,” Haberkorn recalled. “She took her purse, which was a mirrored glass purse, and smashed me with it.”
It was during or shortly after the alleged first hit that one of Haberkorn’s daughters started filming on her cell phone from down the block.
The video shows Cooke's boyfriend trying to intervene.
“She just f---ing hit me!” Haberkornisheardprotesting.
“You called me a f---ing bitch, you called me a c---,” an unsteady Cooke sobs from the ground.
“You called me a f---ing Jew,” an outraged Haberkorn responds before moving back toward the daughter who was recording.
The video turns shaky but then shows Haberkorn losing his balance as Cooke pulls him down in an apparent sudden tackle.
“What are you doing? You’re throwing a woman on the floor,” Cooke’s boyfriend accuses Haberkorn, the video shows.
“I didn’t f---ing touch her,” he responds.
“She falls down and tries to hold or take me down,” Haberkorn said, describing Cooke as “clearly drunk.”
Thomas said she also went to confront Cooke, and the socialite told her, “Why don’t you use your money to get a nose job?”Cooke and her boyfriend allegedly ran off after the confrontation. Haberkorn said he didn’t know who she was at first, but the restaurant gave her name to NYPD.
Cooke answered the door to her Upper East Side apartment in gray pajamas and a finger sling Wednesday and denied the whole incident to a News reporter.“There’s nothing that happened on New Year’s Eve,” she told The News. “I was here in my apartment.”
She turned herself in at the 19th Precinct stationhouse and was later led out in handcuffs.
Cooke’s alleged Sunday night attack wasn’t the first time she’s been accused of boorish behavior in public.
She allegedly snapped at Boston cops during a 2008 DUI arrest, asking them “whether they knew who her father was” and demanding their badges because “$1 billion goes a long way,” Deadspin.com previously reported.