The glamorous former “Project Runway” contestant accused of lying to cops about being mugged refused a no jail plea deal in a Manhattan court Monday then quipped about her desire to become a cop.
“I’ll join the NYPD when this gets dismissed,” joked Morgan Quinn, looking fib-bulous in a leopard print pencil skirt, a vintage fur stole and brown stilettos after a court appearance. “They could use a smart blond.”
Manhattan prosecutors offered the leggy beauty two days of community service if she copped to filing a false police report but she turned down the deal.
Quinn claimed a tall homeless man threatened her with a sharp object, forced her inside a building and swiped her Chanel purse and $2,000 cocktail ring last August.
Cops found her empty purse a week later but couldn’t detect any evidence of the attack on surveillance videos. She was hit with the misdemeanor false-report rap.
Quinn believes cops accused her of lying because they didn’t like her attitude.
“They acted like I was some poor little rich girl and they just wanted to teach me a lesson,” she whined, her lips freshly daubed red. “They rolled their eyes and were like it’s just a Chanel bag. They were laughing and pulling my picture up on the Internet.”
Quinn, who was nicknamed “Morganza” on the hit reality show for her hysterical meltdowns, did concede she could have been calmer when police interviewed her about the robbery.
“I wish I had acted a little bit differently but I was upset,” she said. “I had just been mugged and thrown down the stairs.”
Defense lawyer Brian Kennedy said he was stunned the judge didn’t dismiss the case. The video surveillance doesn’t capture what happened inside the building when she was robbed, he said. It shows the two entering through the front door.
Ten minutes later another camera captures hobo running out the building’s backdoor and Quinn chasing after him seconds later, he said.
A witness called 911.
“There’s still a guy out there and he’s going to do it again,” Quinn griped. “It’s humiliating that I even have to be here.”
Quinn bizarrely likened her choice of towering stiletto footwear to her decision to fight her misdemeanor case.
“Flats are for quitters and there’s nothing about me that says defeat,” she said, teetering on spike-heeled booties by Jessica Simpson.