SEX & DRUGS: Thomas Hoey Jr. allegedly rebuffed lover Nicole Zobkiw’s plea to call 911after their sex partner OD’d. (
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A hard-partying banana mogul repeatedly refused to call for an ambulance after a woman he plied with cocaine fatally overdosed during a three-way sex romp at a Park Avenue hotel, a cop testified yesterday.
Thomas Hoey Jr., owner of the Long Island Banana Corp., had used a business card to give Kimberly Calo high-quality coke in his suite at The Kitano, said retired NYPD Detective Edward Boyle, who investigated Calo’s 2009 death.
After having sex with then-mistress Nicole Zobkiw, Hoey went at it with Calo, who helped herself to blow on a coffee table, Boyle said Zobkiw told him.
After snorting more, Calo began convulsing and “her head dropped to the table with a thud,” Boyle told jurors at Manhattan federal court, where Zobkiw is on trial on charges of making false statements and perjury.
“She was frothing at the mouth. Her eyes rolled back in her head. Her lips started turning blue,” Boyle said.
Zobkiw, who had brought Calo to the hotel after meeting her that night at a Long Island bar, tried to get Hoey to call 911, Boyle said.
But Hoey allegedly said “he’d seen this before” and Calo “was going to be fine.”
Security video shows Zobkiw going to the lobby three times for help, Boyle said.
But Hoey told a hotel security guard a “doctor friend” was on the way, Boyle said, adding that the pal had told Zobkiw that Calo was dead.
Zobkiw is standing trial in Manhattan federal court for allegedly lying to a grand jury about the fatal ménage. Hoey hasn’t been charged.
Her lawyer, Leonard Lato, conceded in opening statements that Zobkiw tried to cover up what happened, but he blamed it on a “corrupt lawyer” Hoey had sent to intimidate her two days before her testimony in 2011.
Lato said lawyer Barry Balaban told Zobkiw she would never get custody of her son if she didn’t follow his advice — in an exchange secretly recorded by her boyfriend.
Lato told jurors that “your eyes are going to pop out of your head” when the recording is played in court.
Balaban’s lawyer didn’t return requests for comment yesterday. Hoey’s lawyer, Joseph Conway, said, “Mr. Hoey is not on trial and is not accused of any criminal wrongdoing.”