NANCY OKUN
Broadway scion Eric Nederlander, who allegedly violated a protection order by attacking his girlfriend early Thursday, had been arrested last year for punching her and slamming her head into a taxi partition, The Post has learned.
Nederlander’s girlfriend, Nancy Okun, told cops that he’d gone ballistic during a late-night cab ride on July 19, a criminal complaint shows.
He smashed her face into the Plexiglas, grabbed her arm “with significant force” and then tried to keep her from getting out of the car, according to the court documents.
“Don’t get out of the cab. Please don’t do this to me. They’ll take her away,” the Broadway bad boy begged her, apparently making a reference to his young daughter, Mira, and an ongoing nasty custody battle with second ex-wife Lindsey Kupferman.
Finally, Nederlander himself got out of the cab and continued the fight with Okun outside her West 12th Street apartment, she told police.
He punched Okun in the face and shoved her “several times” into the walls of the hallway outside her home, the complaint says.
Nederlander — whose first wife, Jessica Sklar, left him after three weeks and married funnyman Jerry Seinfeld — was charged with assault and harassment, records show.
Okun, who’s been dating Nederlander for years, declined to prosecute, said sources familiar with the case.
He was allowed to plead to disorderly conduct and was ordered to attend 26 weeks of anger management classes.
A judge also put in place the limited order of protection, which allowed Nederlander and Okun, who’s divorced with a young son, to see each other but prohibited him from assaulting, stalking, intimidating or threatening her.
The pair had been living together at Okun’s apartment for the past several weeks when he allegedly violated that order Thursday.
He was arrested at Okun’s apartment at around 2:30 a.m. after he yanked her hair while she was sleeping and said, “You’re cheating on me,” court papers say.
He was arraigned on felony contempt-of-court charges, barred from having any contact with Okun and released on $5,000 bond.
Nederlander’s dad, Robert, is part-owner of the Yankees, and his family owns six theaters.
Nederlander’s lawyer said his client denies ever attacking Okun.