A Queens beauty claims a 280-pound bouncer bashed her in the eye at an Astoria nightclub — leaving her with a scar that could kill her burgeoning modeling career.
“When he hit me, I couldn’t see with this eye at all,” Marilyn Reyes, 21, told The Post.
She said she, her boyfriend, her cousin and an acquaintance had been at Don Coqui at 3 a.m. last Sunday when the cousin and pal were ejected for drunkeness.
Reyes and beau Leo Nuñez found cops putting her cousin in a squad car outside. Nuñez said he filmed it with his cellphone, angering a bouncer.
“One of the bouncers starting telling me, ‘Let’s do it,’ ” Nuñez said.
As the bouncer took off his jacket, Reyes — who models part time while apprenticing as an electrician — began filming with her own phone.
The bouncer, Matthew Reid, slapped it to the ground, police said.
“I was crying. I was really upset,” Reyes said.
She said she flailed her arms and “then boom!”
Another bouncer, Ruben Troche, allegedly punched her, leaving her with a gash over the right eye that required five stitches at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Troche, 53, of The Bronx, was charged with assault and Reid, 46, of Harlem, was charged with criminal mischief, police said.
Troche did not respond to a phone message. Reid could not be reached.
Reyes, who said she had only two drinks at the birthday party for her cousin’s fiancé, sued the club Friday in Queens Supreme Court, seeking $1 million in damages.
“They just hire goons,” said her attorney, Lowell Sidney. “I don’t know what type of security guards they have there, but they should know how to restrain someone.”
John Mangan, a co-owner of Don Coqui, says surveillance video tells a different story.
“The woman tried to attack an ex-police officer,” he said.
“She had her shoe heel in her hand and went to hit him in the back of the head. Another security guard pushed her, and her head hit the ground.”
Citing the suit, he declined to release the video or say if the bouncers were fired.
Reyes, who’s also studying for a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, told The Post she has worked runways and done gigs for Univision.
“She’s no longer able to model. She’s losing out on jobs,” Sidney said.