Socialite’s new calling

TROUBLED socialite Melissa Berkelhammer declared at her May 28 arraignment that she’d “never get another job” after she was accused of stealing $ 4,000 in goods from Bergdorf Goodman. But the 38yearold blogger and Harvard and Princeton grad has found work as a restaurant hostess and volunteering at a nursing home. Berkelhammer will start greeting guests at kosher Japanese steakhouse Prime KO this week. Owner Joey Allaham said he was introduced to her through a friend, but didn't know about Berkelhammer’s legal troubles before they met. “I just wanted to help someone out. She’ll make a good hostess and she wants to work,” he explained. Berkelhammer will also start volunteering at the Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home on the Upper East Side this week. Berkelhammer’s next court date is Aug. 17. Her lawyer, Mark Jay Heller, told us, “Justice has to be tempered with mercy.”