Cipriani’s it ain’t.
Out-of-control socialite blogger Dori Cooperman spent a harrowing morning today amidst the grime and crooks of Manhattan Criminal Court, where she pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for smashing a cop car window in March, and then nearly wiped out on the snow-swept courthouse portico as she dodged news photographers in her snakeskin-trimmed platform stilettos.
“My picture is not going to run in the Post!” Cooperman, 41, growled as she tried to outrun photographers.
“This is a f—ing pain in my f—ing a–,” she announced, flinging her mink bolero jacket over her head and clicking unsteadily across the icy granite on thin, mini-skirted legs — looking something like an exotic, fresh water wading bird startled by a sudden Florida frost.
Cooperman is the daughter of Edwin Cooperman, former chairman of Travelers Bank Group and a prolific social scene blogger and gossip pages name. She was in court today to clear up a decidedly down-market incident with a cabbie and some police officers from March.
According to the criminal complaint against her, Cooperman had taken a cab from 61st Street and 5th Street to 14th Street and 9th Avenue. Cooperman then refused to pay the $22.56 fare, according to the complaint.
During the ensuing argument with the cabbie, Cooperman repeatedly opened and slammed the back door of the cab with such force, the window shattered, the complaint says.
“There’s nothing you can do to me!” cops say she then hollered once they arrived. “What are you going to do?” she allegedly continued.
“It’s not about the money. Get off me! What are you doing? I’m going to call my father! You don’t know who I am!” she allegedly shouted.
Cops say they found a small quantity of cocaine on her, and threw her in the back seat of a police car, from which perch she allegedly kicked a window hard enough to crack it.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Erika Edwards today allowed Cooperman to withdraw her previous plea to misdemeanor criminal mischief, and re-plead to lesser charge of disorderly conduct, a violation.
The deal had been contingent on Cooperman completing drug rehab and staying out of trouble for the past six months.
“You have to face me,” the judge repeatedly told Cooperman, who kept trying to turn away from news photographers in the courtroom.
Asked if she had anything to say before she was sentenced to time served — meaning the night she’d spent in jail after the March incident — Cooperman huffed, “I do not agree with them taking my picture.”
The judge answered, “That’s really no concern of yours at this point,” and asked Cooperman again if she had anything to say about the sentence, to which the socialite answered, “Um, no.”
Cooperman, who once worked PR with the infamous Lizzie Grubman and rehabbed in 2007 at Malibu’s Promises rehab with Lindsey Lohan, is a fixture on the party, club and charity scenes in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Miami and LA.
Earlier this month, Cooperman was in Page Six for a flamboyant appearance at the reopening of the famed Manhattan nightclub Marquee, during which her $10,000 Peter Som fur coat caught fire after coming into contact with a lighting fixture.
Last month, she gushed in her regular blog for hauteliving.com about lunching at Cipriani uptown, shopping on Madison Avenue, and popping over to a “Chanel event at Bloomingdales,” a “Vladimir’s art event” and “the Mellon’s house for a lovely event,” all on a single day, enthusing, “I had such a busy day yesterday!”
Today’s appearance clears up her current court docket; five years ago she had a forgery and larceny case expunged in Manhattan for allegedly swiping a $4,300 check from her Upper East Side neighbor.