Amy Cooper who ignited race storm after calling cops on black birdwatcher in Central Park once tried to have her doorman fired – and now spends the holidays with the ex-wife of co-worker she had an affair with
- Details of Amy Cooper’s life continue to emerge weeks after she ignited a race firestorm after footage of her calling police on a black man went viral
- She was filmed falsely telling police that birdwatcher Christian Cooper was threatening her life after he told her to leash her dog in New York’s Central Park
- One of her neighbors in her Upper West Side apartment building said Cooper vowed to get their doorman fired following a confrontation last winter
- She is also now friends with and goes on vacation with the ex-wife of a man she allegedly had an affair with
- Cooper filed a lawsuit in 2015 against Martin Priest – a married man she worked with – claiming she’d given him $65k to help with divorce his wife
- Priest denies having a relationship with Cooper but says he did borrow money from her and the dispute was settled out of court
- She has since become friends with his now ex-wife and they vacation together
The white woman dubbed Central Park Karen for calling 911 on a black bird watcher once tried to have her doorman fired and now goes on vacation with the ex-wife of a man she had an affair with.
Details of Amy Cooper’s life continue to emerge weeks after she ignited a race firestorm across the country after footage of her encounter with birdwatcher Christian Cooper in New York’s Central Park went viral.
She was filmed falsely telling police that Cooper, who is not related to her, was threatening her life after he told her to leash her dog.
One of her neighbors in her Upper West Side apartment building has since said that Cooper vowed to get their doorman fired following a confrontation last winter.
The neighbor, Alison Faircloth, told the New York Times that she found Cooper on the ‘verge of tears’ after the doorman supposedly cursed at her for no reason.
Details of Amy Cooper’s life continue to emerge weeks after she ignited a race firestorm across the country after footage of her encounter with birdwatcher Christian Cooper in New York’s Central Park went viral
Faircloth said she later asked the doorman about the confrontation and he said Cooper had complained about a broken elevator before forcing her way into a security booth and yelling at him.
The doorman told Faircloth that Cooper had to be removed a security guard.
‘There’s always a narrative from her about someone who has done her wrong,’ she said.
It has also since emerged that Cooper is now friends with and goes on vacation with the ex-wife of a man she allegedly had an affair with following a brief battle that involved a lawsuit.
Cooper filed a lawsuit in 2015 against Martin Priest – a married man she worked with at Lehman Brothers between 2005 to 2008.
In the lawsuit, Cooper said the pair were in a relationship and she had lent him $65,000 so he could divorce his wife and pay for another woman he was involved with to have an abortion.
Her lawsuit claims that after she gave him the money she found out Priest’s wife Tianna was pregnant and that he was going to marry another woman who was also pregnant.
Cooper was filmed falsely telling police that Cooper, who is not related to her, was threatening her life after he told her to leash her dog
Christian Cooper, the man at the center of the saga, has since said the incident ‘pulled the pin on the race grenade’ that later exploded nationwide following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis
Cooper filed the lawsuit to get back the $65,000 but the dispute was settled outside of court.
Priest denies having a relationship with Cooper but says he did borrow money from her.
Cooper has since become friends with Priest’s now ex-wife Tianna.
The pair now go on vacations together and Tianna’s family credit Cooper for helping save her from a toxic marriage.
Cooper hasn’t commented or been seen publicly since she issued an apology last month to the black birdwatcher she accused of threatening her life in Central Park.
The video showed Cooper lying to police and saying she felt threatened by the birdwatcher who asked her to leash her dog.
She was fired from her job at global investment firm Franklin Templeton in response.
Cooper ended up being fired from her job at global investment firm Franklin Templeton in response. She also briefly surrendered her rescue dog (above) but the animal has since been returned to her
Cooper briefly surrendered her rescue dog to a shelter following backlash but the animal has since been returned to her after vets deemed the animal to be healthy.
Christian Cooper, the man at the center of the saga, has since said the incident ‘pulled the pin on the race grenade’ that later exploded nationwide following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
He told CBS that his decision to start filming Cooper had ‘nothing to do with race’ at first but what transpired would go on to fuel a national conversation about racial bias in America.
‘She basically pulled the pin on the race grenade and tried to lob it at me,’ Christian told the network. ‘She was going to tap into a deep, deep, dark vein of racism and racial bias that runs through this country and has done for centuries.’
He said that while he has accepted Cooper’s apology, he urged the public to look at the bigger picture of racism that the encounter displayed.
‘That’s what we really have to address; not the specifics of her, but why are we still plagued with that and how do we fix it,’ he said.