The Manhattan socialite who is accused of bashing a man over the head with her lucite purse after allegedly making anti-Semitic comments towards the victim’s mother is heading to court.
Jacqueline Kent Cooke, 30, appeared in New York Criminal Court on Tuesday for her first hearing in the case, which was continued until October 23, at which point a trial date will be set the Manhattan District Attorney’s office tells DailyMail.com.
Assistant District Attorney Neil Greenwell has been assigned to the case, and is asking that Cooke receive three months in prison for the attack on Matthew Haberkorn.
She is the daughter of the late Jack Kent Cooke, who at one time had ownership stakes in the Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Kings.
Cooke remained quiet for most of the proceedings as she stood beside her public defender in a demure black sheath and nude pumps.
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Poor little rich girl: Jacqueline Kent Cooke, 30, appeared in court on Tuesday (above) and learned that her case will be heading to trial
Trouble ahead: Cooke’s father is the late Jack Kent Cooke, who owned the Washington Redskins, and the Manhattan DA confirmed to DailyMail.com that the case is going to trial
Scene: She allegedly bashed Matthew Haberkorn on the head with her $300 glass purse outside a swanky Upper East Side restaurant Caravaggio (Cooke left, Haberkorn right in video from attack)
Cooke is accused of attacking Haberkorn, 52, outside the Manhattan eatery Caravaggio on December 31 of last year.
The lawyer, who lives with his family in Redwood City, California, claims that the trouble with Cooke began when his mother was getting her coat after their meal at Caravaggio.
‘Hurry up, Jew,’ Cooke said to the 77-year-old grandmother claims Haberkorn.
‘Hurry up Jew, I got places to be.’
Haberkorn decided to confront Cooke about the statement outside he said, and that is when she bashed him in the head with her mirrored Lulu Guinness clutch at around 11:45pm according to an NYPD spokesperson.
Video taken by his daughter shows Haberkorn bleeding from the head just moments after the alleged assault.
Cooke meanwhile can be seen laying on the ground and struggling to stand.
‘You called me a f***ing bitch, you called me a c**t,’ Cooke can be heard shouting in the video.
Haberkorn then looks at Cooke and shouts: ‘You called me a f***ing Jew.’
His daughter meanwhile can be heard shouting don’t touch him as Cooke’s boyfriend wraps his arms around the man.
Cooke than appears to try and take a swing at Haberkorn, at which point she again falls on the ground.
As her boyfriend wraps his arms around Haberkorn, Cooke appears to get up and then fall as she takes another swing at him.
Cooke then rushes at the man and tries to pull him to the ground, which again results with her falling on the pavement.
‘You’re throwing a woman on the floor,’ Cooke’s boyfriend yells at Haberkorn.
Cooke and the man then run off with Cooke yelling ‘self-defense’ and Haberkorn saying he wants to call ‘the f***ing police.’
Her Instagram page, which is set to private, reveals that she is preparing to launch her new business Cane Casa.
It will offer ‘premium dog beds for premium canines.’
Cooke previously worked for shoe designer Isa Tapia as the director of PR and marketing.
Baby girl: Moments before the atatck, Cooke had allegedly told the man’s mother to ‘Hurry up Jew’ while they were waiting outside the cloakroom (Cooke and her mother after her birth with a photo of her father on the bedside table)
Move: Cooke claims she was misheard and actually said: ‘Excuse me I have to get through’ (Cooke being taken into custody back in January)
Family: Her mother Suzanne was the third of Jack Kent Cooke’s four wives, marrying the millionaire businessman when she was 31 and he was 74 in 1987 (Cooke above in 1994)
Her mother Suzanne was the third of Jack Kent Cooke’s four wives, marrying the millionaire businessman when she was 31 and he was 74 in 1987.
The two divorced after just 72 days, and Suzanne later gave birth to a daughter Jacqueline.
Jack married Marlene Ramallo Chalmers, his fourth wife, in 1990 and again in 1995 after divorcing her three years into their marriage.
The two were married at the time of Jack’s death.
He did however provide for his two children, Jacqueline and John Kent Cooke Sr, who is now 75.
His third child, son Ralph, died two years before his father at the age of 58 from liver failure.
John and Ralph were both born during their father’s first marriage to Barbara Jean Carnegie.
When the two divorced in 1979 after 45 years, Barbara received a then-record $42 million settlement.
John Sr was left with the interest on $10 million, and an additional $15 million to be paid out over several years by his father in his will.
He also received almost all of his father’s possessions, including clothing, a Patek Phillipe watch, his sterling silver, antiques, jewelry, works of art and ‘any one of my automobiles, other than my 1962 Bentley Continental, as my said son, in his sole and absolute discretion, shall choose.’
That aforementioned Bentley was left to Ralph.
Jacqueline received no material possessions, despite having had a close relationship with her father in the final years of his life.
The two did not meet until she was three, but began exchanging letters in his final years.
Jacqueline also received considerably less money than her brother, but much more than her father’s fourth wife and her own mother, who were both cut out of the will.
Chalmers later successfully sued for $20 million, a sizable payday for the Bolivian beauty who was almost deported in 1986 for cocaine trafficking. She ultimately worked out a deal however with the CIA and DEA that kept her out of jail and in the US.
‘At the time of her father’s death, Jacqueline Cooke was left a $5 million trust, which was structured to pay her $25,000 a year until she reached 16, when the annual payout jumped to $50,000,’ reported The Washington Post back in 2007.
‘When she turns 21, payments are set to rise to $100,000. At 35, she will begin receiving annual sums equal to 8 percent of the trust, currently valued at more than $6 million.’
Jacqueline was suing her father’s trustees at the time, which included her brother, saying that her education should be covered by the trust and not have to come out of her own pocket.
Her mother said that the annual payout her daughter received was instead meant to be her ‘walking around money.’
Jacqueline first filed a lawsuit against the trustees just after her father’s death, with lawyers making sure that Chalmers payout would not impact the young girl’s inheritance.
She was 10 at the time.
In 2008, a 20-year-old Jacqueline was arrested by police in Boston and charged with operating under the influence and operating without a license.
She was stopped by police after leaving a diner without paying her bill according to Boston.com, and started her car despite their instructions to not turn on the vehicle.
Prior to getting in the car because she could not find a taxi, Cooke ‘stepped into the street, lifted her skirt, and exposed her buttocks to the officers.’
While being booked she asked if they knew who her father was and threatened to have their badges stripped, stating: ‘One-billion dollars goes a long way.’