PRIME CUT: Actress Tawny Cypress and husband Thomas Dillon (far left) lured her ex, Bill Charles (inset), to a beating at Brooklyn’s Cheeburger Cheeburger, according to Charles’ lawsuit. (
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A sexy star of the sci-fi TV drama “Heroes” used her 12-year-old son to lure her ex-husband to a Brooklyn burger joint, where her current spouse attacked him — and then the two had him tossed in jail, the angered ex claims in a $1 million lawsuit against the couple.
Tawny Cypress, 36, who portrayed the art dealer Simone Deveaux in the defunct NBC series, convinced their son, Dexter, to ask his dad, Bill Charles, to meet at Cheeburger Cheeburger in Park Slope on June 6, the Brooklyn Supreme Court suit alleges.
But when he got there, Cypress’ husband, Thomas Dillon, was “lying in wait” and attacked Charles with a “hard object,” knocking him to the ground and leaving him with a concussion, Charles claims in court papers.
“I seriously could have been killed,” photo agent Charles, 58, told The Post outside his Brooklyn home yesterday. “For my son to have witnessed that — it’s a terrible thing.”
He alleges Dillon and Cypress then “fabricated” a series of events and told cops Charles had assaulted his son, the suit alleges.
Meanwhile, cops and prosecutors say what happened was an entirely different story and Charles was the aggressor — and threw him in jail for six nights. He was slapped with several charges, including third-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child, court records show.
Prosecutors in Brooklyn say Charles allegedly “slammed his [son’s] head and body into a window, threw [the boy] to the floor . . . sat on top of [him] and repeatedly” hit him, according to the criminal complaint.
Cheeburger Cheeburger co-owner Nitin Yadav said Charles held his son “against the wall . . . I saw the kid on the ground. People in the restaurant tried to save the kid. He was screaming, ‘Help me! Help me!’”
Police sources said Charles appeared to be intoxicated and agitated during the incident.
Since the incident, there has been a protection order against Charles, who previously had joint custody of the boy with Cypress.
“My client hasn’t seen his son in seven months,” said Charles’ lawyer, Robert Feldman. “That was the purpose of the whole thing: Tawny wanted to deprive Bill of the custody and the company of their son.
“The relatively minor charges against my client are merely a distraction from the attempted murder that Thomas Dillon committed against my client.”
He added, “Tommy Dillon hit my client with what appeared to be a cellphone extremely hard, causing serious physical injuries.”
Cypress, 36, was married to Charles from 2000 to 2004.
“I hate this,” a teary-eyed Cypress told The Post yesterday. “The lawsuit is totally without merit; it’s completely without merit.
“This is all about a 12-year-old kid and nobody important enough to write about,” she added before slamming the door of her Brooklyn home. Dillon could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Additional reporting by Kirstan Conley