Patti Hansen has even better timing than her legendary Rolling Stones guitarist husband Keith Richards.
Just a day after Hansen and Richard’s daughter Theodora appeared in court to face criminal graffiti and drug charges, Hansen was presenting a “Mother of the Year” award to a prominent New York cancer doctor.
The fashion model Hansen, a bladder cancer survivor herself, was all smiles at the gala American Cancer Society luncheon at the Plaza Hotel today honoring Dr. Freya Schnabel — one of the physicians who had treated Hansen during her illness.
Hansen “was honored to do it, and she offered to do it,” said Roger Webster, a publicist for the event, which was laden with high-profile New York socialites, and which also lauded philanthropist Muffie Potter Aston as another Mother of the Year.
“It was a big success.”
Less successful is Theodora Richards, Hansen’s 25-year-old daughter, who was busted by cops Tuesday night after allegedly scrawling in red marker the phrase “T Heart A” on the exterior wall of a Catholic nunnery in SoHo.
Police also found illegal painkiller pills and marijuana in the purse of Richards, a long-tressed blonde who like her mom works as a model.
That drug stash is small potatoes compared to the massive quantity of heroin and booze that her daddy Keith Richards has bragged about consuming in his wilder days.
Theodora Richards was released without bail yesterday after a brief appearance in Manhattan criminal court. She rejected an offer from prosecutors to plead guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct and to receive a sentence of two days of community service and one day of drug treatment.
Today, Richards and two companions scampered out of her SoHo apartment building past reporters and photographers, not saying a word as she ducked into a waiting Mercedes, which quickly drove off.
Webster, the publicist for the Cancer Society event, said that “there was no mention” of the drama involving Hansen’s daughter at the awards gala.