New York Post

Luke at game enrages wife

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FORMER Giants lineman Luke Petitgout is facing charges of assaulting his wife in New York and New Jersey, but spies said he was on the sidelines with his old team Sunday.

Sources say Jennifer Petitgout was distraught to hear Luke was allowed on the field while facing domestic abuse charges, even while the NFL’s “social responsibi­lity” team has launched a campaign of PSAs, featuring Eli Manning, against domestic violence.

“Luke was at the game with his kids, waving to the crowd,” said a source. “This was the second time recently he was on the field, despite the NFL saying they’re clamping down on abuse. It’s pathetic. You need credential­s to get on the field.”

Petitgout’s facing an attempted assault rap in Manhattan Criminal Court for allegedly attacking his wife at a Midtown lounge on June 5. He was separately arrested in November on sexual assault charges against her in Bergen County for allegedly attacking her at their home after she’d booted him from the house. The night of that incident, Petitgout was also on the sidelines at a Giants game, sources said, as part of a celebratio­n for explayers including Michael Strahan.

But a Giants rep told us Luke attended Sunday’s game “as a guest of one of our suite holders. He was not there at the invitation of the team.” And “he was not on the field during the game. He was on the sidelines during pregame, when there are hundreds of guests . . . To my knowledge, he was on the visiting side.”

Petitgout’s lawyer in the Manhattan case, Dennis Ring, has argued Jennifer never claimed she’d been assaulted in June and the charges were based on the account of a Queens man, John Constantin­ides, who also claims Petitgout assaulted him. “At trial we expect to challenge the background of [Constantin­ides],” said Ring, who’s claimed Constantin­ides is after money — “It is clear what his motivation is.”

Jennifer’s lawyer, Nicole Noonan, told us: “The NFL is still condoning this type of aggressive behavior off the field, and only focusing on success on it.”

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