The “Banana Queen” burst into anguished tears in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday when her produce mogul boyfriend was convicted of beating her bloody at their posh Upper East Side apartment.
Thomas Hoey, 46, the notorious orgy-loving president of the Long Island Banana Corp., now has convictions for misdemeanor assault and felony tampering to add to his cluster of raps, despite the girlfriend’s refusal to cooperate against him.
“I’m not a victim! I never was a victim,” victim Alison Bretherick cried as her Banana King was carted back to prison.
The wealthy Hoey has been crated up in a federal jail since December 2013, awaiting trial on unrelated, more serious charges that he supplied the cocaine that killed a woman during a wild sex party.
In that 2009 case, Hoey allegedly refused to call police as the woman went into convulsions, instead basking in the afterglow of a wild, three-way sex romp with the dying woman and a second woman.
In court Wednesday, Bretherick still refused to split from the married, womanizing millionaire who’d left her with a bleeding scalp after a 2012 argument.
“I absolutely disagree with it,” Bretherick said of the verdict — even though her father and cousin testified against Hoey in court.
The blonde beauty, 29, wore a pink and white summer dress and ballet flats as she sat beside Hoey’s sister, Yolanda Hoey. She said she’s been dating the bad boy banana boss for five years.
Bretherick’s father and mother, who declined to comment, were also in the courtroom and exchanged chilly glances with their daughter from the opposite side of the gallery.
Hoey was charged for beating Bretherick in March 2012 after a neighbor heard her whimpering in the stairwell of their apartment building, according to court records.
When the neighbor came out she saw Bretherick’s face covered in blood and Hoey clutching her wrist.
The neighbor called the police. But Bretherick denied there had been any abuse.
Hoey then implausibly claimed the blood on the stairwell had come from his picking his own nose, court records show.
“We’ll make motions to set aside the verdict and concentrate on an appeal,” said defense lawyer Joseph Conway. “It’s a case where the evidence does not match the verdict.”
He faces 1 1/3 to four years on the top felony tampering charge — which resulted from his trying to clean up blood stains before the cops got there.
Additional reporting by Julia Marsh and Rich Calder