Millionaire socialite daughter, 29, of former Redskins owner is charged with assault after 'bashing a stranger with her $300 glass purse and spewing anti-Semitic slurs in upscale Manhattan restaurant'

  • Jacqueline Kent Cooke, 29, was charged with assault Wednesday in New York
  • She got in altercation with a family on the Upper East Side on New Year's Eve
  • Cooke allegedly yelled 'Hurry up, Jew!' at a woman in the coat check area
  • Then bashed the woman's son in the head with $300 glass box clutch, he claims
  • Heiress denies the incident occurred and says she was at home for the New Year

By Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com

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Jacqueline Kent Cooke (left) is seen clutching the alleged weapon in this snap from April with fellow socialite Amanda Hearst

Jacqueline Kent Cooke (left) is seen clutching the alleged weapon in this snap from April with fellow socialite Amanda Hearst

The millionaire socialite daughter of a former Washington Redskins owner has been arrested for allegedly bashing a stranger in the head with her $300 glass purse after spewing anti-Semitic slurs.

Jacqueline Kent Cooke, 29, was charged with assault on Wednesday in New York following the shocking confrontation on New Year's Eve in the swanky Upper East Side restaurant Caravaggio.

Cooke's alleged weapon in the brazen assault was a Lulu Guinness Chloe Mirrored Perspex Box Clutch, which retails for $300 and is made of mirrored glass.

San Francisco-based lawyer Matthew Haberkorn, 52, told the New York Daily News that the incident began in the restaurant's coat check area, when he says Cooke became belligerent with his 77-year-old mother.

'Hurry up, Jew!' Cooke snapped at his mother, Haberkorn claims.

'What did you say?' Haberkorn's wife Linda Thomas asked Cooke. 

'Hurry up, Jew, I got places to be!' Cooke allegedly replied.

Cooke's boyfriend allegedly chimed in with his own nasty remarks, telling Haberkorn's daughters: 'Happy bat mitzvah, girls.' 

Cooke claims she was at home on New Year's Eve, but she's been charged with assault in the shocking sidewalk brawl that spilled out of a swanky Upper East Side restaurant

Cooke claims she was at home on New Year's Eve, but she's been charged with assault in the shocking sidewalk brawl that spilled out of a swanky Upper East Side restaurant

The alleged weapon, a $300 Lulu Guinness Chloe Mirrored Perspex Box Clutch, is seen in this stock image
Matthew Haberkorn is seen bleeding after the assault in this photo taken by his daughter

The alleged weapon, a $300 Lulu Guinness Chloe Mirrored Perspex Box Clutch, is seen left in a stock image. Haberkorn (right) was left bleeding after Cooke bashed him with it, he says

Haberkorn is seen with his wife Linda in a family photo. She confronted Cooke over the alleged nasty remarks, but says the socialite took no heed of her rejoinder and kept spewing insults

Haberkorn is seen with his wife Linda in a family photo. She confronted Cooke over the alleged nasty remarks, but says the socialite took no heed of her rejoinder and kept spewing insults

The incident then spilled out onto the sidewalk outside the glitzy restaurant, where Haberkorn confronted the socialite over her alleged slurs.

'I walked up to her and asked her why she said that,' Haberkorn told the Daily News. 'She took her purse, which was a mirrored glass purse, and smashed me with it.' 

Just then, one of Haberkorn's four daughters began filming the confrontation, showing Cooke rolling on the sidewalk and struggling to get up, presumably after taking a swing.

'You called me a f***ing bitch, you called me a c**t,' Cooke can be heard saying.

'You called me a f***ing Jew,' Haberkorn claps back. 

As her boyfriend wraps his arms around Haberkorn, Cooke appears to get up and then fall as she takes another swing at him.

Cooke is the daughter of the late Jack Kent Cooke, who owned the Washington Redskins

Cooke is the daughter of the late Jack Kent Cooke, who owned the Washington Redskins

Crime scene: The incident spilled out onto the sidewalk outside of Caravaggio (pictured), where Haberkorn confronted the socialite over her alleged slurs

Crime scene: The incident spilled out onto the sidewalk outside of Caravaggio (pictured), where Haberkorn confronted the socialite over her alleged slurs

In daylight: The video appears to show Cooke falling to the ground on this sidewalk repeatedly

In daylight: The video appears to show Cooke falling to the ground on this sidewalk repeatedly

'You're throwing a woman on the floor,' Cooke's boyfriend accuses Haberkorn in a slurred voice, to which he responds: 'I didn't f***ing touch her'. 

The video ends after Cooke appears to try to tackle Haberkorn, but falls to the sidewalk yet again.

The couple runs away, and Cooke can be heard claiming 'self-defense' and 'you harassed me' over her shoulder as she flees.  

Cooke is the daughter of the late Jack Kent Cooke, who owned the Redskins, along with the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings.

When a reporter for the Daily News visited her apartment Wednesday night, she was wearing pajamas and a finger splint, and denied the entire incident. 

'There's nothing that happened on New Year's Eve,' she said. 'I was here in my apartment.'

Cooke is the daughter of the late Jack Kent Cooke (pictured), who owned the Redskins, along with the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings

Cooke is the daughter of the late Jack Kent Cooke (pictured), who owned the Redskins, along with the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings

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