Crime & Safety
Socialite NFL Heiress Pleads Guilty To UES Restaurant Attack
The daughter of former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke was initially charged with assault, but was able to plead the charge down.
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The heiress to an NFL fortune will not serve jail time for attacking a lawyer outside an Upper East Side restaurant on New Year's Eve, according to reports.
Jacqueline Kent Cooke, 30, pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct Tuesday and will be punished with three days of community service, the New York Daily News first reported. Cooke was arrested on New Year's Eve and charged with assault as a hate crime for hitting a man in the head with a glass purse.
The scuffle between Cooke and California-based lawyer Matthew Haberkorn allegedly started at the coat check of pricey East 74th Street Italian restaurant Caravaggio when the heiress barked "hurry up, you Jew," at Haberkorn's mother. Haberkorn, 60, was dining at the restaurant with his mother, wife and daughters.
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The nasty comments eventually led to an altercation on the street where Cooke hit Haberkorn in the head with a heavy Lulu Guinness purse made out of mirrored glass, police said at the time.
Prosecutors declined to charge Haberkorn, despite Cooke's claims that the lawyer injured her finger during a fight, the Daily News reported.
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