Con I get break?
Cult heiress: Ease my home confinement Hunt susp in rape try at Bronx bldg.
Poor little rich girl wants to learn.
Clare Bronfman — heiress to the vast Seagram’s liquor fortune and a chief financial backer of the notorious NXIVM sex cult — is asking a judge to loosen the terms of her home confinement so she can leave her posh digs to prepare for the national high school equivalency exam.
Bronfman, 40, made the request Thursday in a letter sent by her legal team to Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis.
In it, her lawyers Kathleen Cassidy and Caroline Grosshans note that prior to the scandalous court case the former equestrian received only a 10th-grade education, and that she “has been working diligently over the past several months to prepare” for the test.
“Ms. Bronfman has taken over 160 hours of online classes, in addition to many hours of practicing exam essays and math,” they wrote. “Ms. Bronfman hopes that by taking basic adult education classes in areas such as anatomy, physiology, English literature and writing, for as long as she is able to under the circumstances, she will continue to build on what she has learned.”
The attorneys go on to argue that because she has no contact with her family in New York and exercise is “critical” to her mental and physical health Garaufis should let her spend “additional time outdoors for running, exercising and grocery shopping.”
Under the current terms of her home confinement, Bronfman is allowed to venture outside three days a week for a total of five hours so she can shop and exercise.
She pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to conceal and hide illegal aliens for financial gain and to fraudulent use of identification and admitted to using the credit card and banking information of cult leader Keith Raniere’s dead ex-lover.
She inherited a fortune after her father, former Seagram’s Co. Chairman Edgar Bronfman, died in 2013.
Clare Bronfman, who was released on a $100 million bond secured by $50 million in assets, still awaits sentencing and is facing up to two years in prison. A creep trailed a woman to her Bronx apartment building, where he threw her against a wall and tried to rape her until a relative intervened, officials said.
Cops Thursday released an image of the assailant (inset) in the hopes that someone recognizes him. Police said the man followed the 28year-old victim into her Elliot Place building about 9:40 a.m. on Wednesday.
Once inside, he jumped the woman, shoved her against a wall then tried to cover her mouth and pull down her pants. The relative heard the victim’s screams and raced over to confront the attacker, who fled.
Cops described her attacker as black, about 5-feet-5, 150 pounds with brown eyes and black hair in braids.