Caroline Giuliani is escorted in handcuffs from Sephora on E. 86th St. in Manhattan. (Lawrence Schwartzwald/splash news)
There was no special treatment for former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s daughter after she was busted for allegedly stealing makeup from a trendy Upper East Side cosmetics store, police said.
In fact, law-enforcement sources said yesterday, Caroline Giuliani had it tougher than a typical shoplifter, especially considering the East 86th Street Sephora she allegedly looted didn’t even want to press charges.
Cops typically leave it up to the store, but in this case they pulled out all the stops — including putting Caroline in cuffs from behind, placing her in the 19th Precinct station-house holding cell and making her exit past a cavalcade of media cameras.
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Caroline, 20, a Harvard senior, was nabbed Wednesday after a security camera caught her stuffing more than $100 worth of makeup into her jacket pocket, according to police.
The store declined to press charges after learning her identity, but with a duty captain on the scene, police decided to leave it up to the Manhattan DA’s Office.
Cops then slapped her with cuffs and hauled her to the station house, where she stewed in a cell before getting a desk-appearance ticket on a petit-larceny charge and a future court date.
She was released to a crowd of waiting reporters and photographers out the front door, instead of being given the option to have a car pull around back and slip her out.
“Nobody did her any favors,” a police source said. “In fact, it’s almost like they went out of their way not to help her. Anybody else, they would never call the DA’s Office to ask them what to do. Everybody was afraid to make a decision, so they kept pushing it up to cover themselves. If they wanted to, they could have sneaked her out of the precinct.”
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly admitted yesterday: “If, ultimately, the complainant doesn’t go forward, it makes the prosecution of the case extremely difficult.”
Teiyana Terry, 31, who was briefly locked up with Caroline after being busted on a shoplifting charge at a Duane Reade drugstore, told The Post the ex-mayor’s daughter was very quiet as she sat in the cell.
“She introduced herself as Caroline,” Terry said. “She didn’t make any issue about being Giuliani’s daughter. I didn’t find out until I heard the police call out her name.
“We were in the same place. She was no better than me.”
The suspect’s famous father had no comment on Caroline’s arrest — or her treatment.
“It’s a private matter,” the ex-mayor said as he left his Upper East Side apartment, “and it’s going to stay that way.”
The current mayor had sympathy for Caroline’s parents.
“You always worry about your kids,” said Mayor Bloomberg, who has two daughters of his own.
“And when your kids get in trouble, you do what’s natural. You try to protect them and I think this is a private matter the Giulianis have to work through.”