Adam Hock is seen leaving court with his lawyer Joseph Tacopina (Steven Hirsch)
He’s the Prince of Bitch-and-Moan-aco.
Monaco’s baby-faced Prince Pierre Casiraghi has given prosecutors a one-page doctor’s report from his royal physicians claiming that a February bar brawl left his royal chin so grievously scratched, he needed to go on disability for a month.
“So this poor kid who doesn’t work couldn’t work for 30 days,” snarked the defense lawyer for accused princely jaw-puncher Adam Hock, who was back in Manhattan Criminal Court today on misdemeanor assault charges from the notorious Battle Royale at Double Seven in the Meatpacking District.
“What I think this actually means is that he can’t go to a club for 30 days,” quipped the lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, speaking to reporters outside court.
Hock, the former owner of the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square, is accused of clocking Casiraghi and three others in the prince’s club-hopping court during a fracas that sent at least one magnum of Grey Goose flying and a gaggle of fashion models scattering.
When treating Casiraghi just after the brawl, doctors at New York Presbyterian Hospital described the prince as suffering a “superficial” skin laceration, Tacopina said.
Seven days later, Casiraghi, the 24-year-old grandson of Grace Kelly, got a second opinion.
“He had his royal doctors check out his royal face,” said Tacopina. Doctors in Monaco diagnosed him with “face trauma,” the lawyer said.
It remains unclear whether Casiraghi’s jaw was fractured by Hock’s caught-on-video punch, as cops said at the time, or “possibly fractured,” as Casiraghi puzzlingly maintained in a sworn affidavit a month after the fracas.
Casiraghi’s lawyer, Edward Kratt, said he could shed no light on the “fractured” versus “possibly fractured” mystery, but insisted after today’s court appearance that the prince and his physicians are exaggerating nothing.
“I know what the real deal is,” Kratt told The Post. “The injury was serious.”
Meanwhile, Hock is continuing to uncover evidence to back his defense that he was the victim of what his lawyer has called four-against-one scuffle with “international bar brawlers.”
Hock is accused of clobbering not only Casiraghi, but young and moneyed princely posse-members Diego Marroquin, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, and Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos, who is the ex of Paris Hilton.
“We have evidence of these guys [acting out] in Brazil, Belize, and Paris,” Tacopina said.
“What happened that night happens all the time. They think mom and dad will dig them out of whatever trouble they get in.
“If they crash the Bentley, mom and dad will buy them another Bentley,” the lawyer said in an apparent reference to some caught-on-Youtube antics from 2007 in which a wobbly Niarchos rams his Bentley into a commercial truck — while shielding his face with his hood and dodging paparazzi — outside a Hollywood nightclub.
Hock is due back in court for possible pretrial hearings July 30.