NFL heiress Kent Cooke going to trial in glass purse attack
Brad Hunter
Published:
September 26, 2018
Updated:
September 26, 2018 2:45 PM EDT
Jacqueline Kent Cooke says SHE was the victim in her New York City altercation. FACEBOOK
Canadian NFL heiress Jacqueline Kent Cooke is headed for trial for an alleged booze-fuelled New Year’s Eve assault.
The big bucks blond is accused of slugging a California lawyer with her glass clutch purse and shouting anti-Semitic slurs at an elderly woman.
Cops initially investigated the incident as a hate crime because Cooke reportedly told the woman in a restaurant coat check line: “Hurry up, Jew”.
According to the New York Daily News, Cooke appeared briefly in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday for setting a trial date in her misdemeanor assault case.
Matthew Haberkorn claims heiress Jacqueline Kent Cooke bloodied him with her glass purse and launched into a racist tirade. Matthew Haberkorn/ INSTAGRAM
The man she allegedly attacked, Matthew Haberkorn, 52, was seen in a cell phone video bleeding from his face. He was given a desk appearance ticket to face a count-complaint and charges related to his alleged role.
The district attorney dismissed the charges against Haberkorn.
Cooke’s father was famed Canadian businessman Jack Kent Cooke who owned newspapers, magazines and the old Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League.
Jacqueline Kent Cooke chills on a tropical beach. INSTAGRAM
He later went on to own the Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Kings.
Cooke has said she was roughed up and suffered a broken finger in the ensuing melee.
Prosecutors reportedly are looking for a three-month jolt in jail for the 30-year-old heiress. She has declined a plea deal.
She had previously been busted for DWI in Boston and called the arresting cops “gay”.
Jacqueline Kent Cooke has been in trouble with the law before. She was nabbed in Boston for drunk driving. For good measure she flashed a cop and called him “gay”. BOSTON POLICE
Cooke denied calling the elderly woman a “Jew”.
She told the New York Post last spring that she said: “Excuse me, I have to get through.”
“She clearly didn’t hear what I said, and immediately screamed at the top of her lungs, ‘She called me a Jew!’”
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