Manhattan prosecutors agreed yesterday not to pursue the misdemeanor assault case against a hunky young millionaire accused of driving his shiny red Ferrari over a cop’s foot in SoHo last summer.
Charges for Julien Chabbott, 29 — the former boyfriend of blond reality star Stephanie Pratt — will be dismissed altogether in six months providing he serves five days’ community service, a Manhattan Criminal Court judge ruled.
Prosecutors explained that while the cop’s injury was painful at the time, it wasn’t serious in the long term, like a bone fracture, and that the officer’s “only known contact with the motor vehicle was minimal.”
But the cop and the millionaire remain at loggerheads over the August 2012 incident, in which Chabbott either intentionally or accidentally rolled forward in his quarter-million-dollar 458 Spider sports car as he was getting a parking ticket outside the Mercer Hotel.
Chabbott, who owns the social media site Line Snob, left court yesterday insisting through his lawyer that he did not run over the foot of Officer Felix Recio.