New York Post

De Niro was talkin’ to me

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THE woman who Claudine De Niro berated at Le Bilboquet for getting her boyfriend

Cuba Gooding Jr.’s phone number told us she was “scared” and feels “traumatize­d.” As we reported, De Niro — the ex-wife of

Robert De Niro’s son Raphael — caused a scene Saturday night at the fancy Hamptons eatery by allegedly yelling at a woman who got the “Jerry Maguire” actor’s digits.

Now we can reveal that the woman at the center of the conflict was Lieba Nesis, a Harvard-educated lawyer and writer. She told us Claudine was “aggressive, harassing [and] berating” toward her for at least an hour.

Nesis said that she has known Gooding casually for seven or eight years, and that he told her at the restaurant that he’s shooting a film in Miami in September and looking for a place to stay. She told him that she owns property there, so he put his number in her phone in order to follow up, Nesis said.

But Claudine saw the exchange go down and lost it. “His girlfriend goes, ‘Oh my God, what are you doing? That’s my boyfriend! You can’t take down the number,’ and she’s screaming, ‘What the f - - k are you doing!’ ” Nesis said. “So I started to explain, and she was like, ‘You better stop doing that. That’s my boyfriend.’ ”

She said Claudine even followed her into a different room. “I really was scared,” she said. “I am not going to fight. I wasn’t expecting to go out and get in a fight.

“The more I tried to explain [that] I was just trying to help, the angrier she got,” Nesis said. “She kept saying, ‘That is my boyfriend, I am a broker, why was I trying to take your business.’ I told her I am not, I am a Harvard-educated lawyer. But she would get angrier and angrier and more out of control.”

When we asked Claudine for comment she first said, “Lieba [is] full of s - - t,” then added, “No comment.”

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