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    Only the New York Tabloids Are Winning the Royal Nightclub Bar Brawl

    By Jen Doll | The Atlantic Wire – Tue, Feb 21, 2012
    Only the New York Tabloids Are Winning the Royal Nightclub Bar Brawl

    The tabloid beef of the week so far is the ridiculous Meatpacking District fight between a 24-year-old prince (the grandson of Grace Kelly) and a middle-aged former club owner. It makes the cover of the New York Post today (again), because of course it does: It has every component of the perfect tabloid tale -- foreign royalty, expensive vodka, models, an undercurrent of misogyny and traditional paternalistic roles gone bad, a pointless beef about nothing between a couple of drunk dudes, violence, and an arrest. And now, criminal complaints, threats, veiled threats, and more stupidities! Oh, the intrigue.

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    Basically, Monaco's Prince Pierre Casiraghi (pictured above) and former Hawaiian Tropic Zone owner Adam Hock got into fisticuffs at the Meatpacking District's Double Seven over the weekend, ending with Casiraghi "bloodied, bruised and with a broken jaw," according to the Daily News, and Hock with a sling on his arm. Hock says "I acted 100 percent in self-defense. I felt I had to defend the honor of the women I was with" (we're sure they thank you). Meanwhile, the prince claims that Hock, a former football player, just went crazy and started swinging punches at the club. 

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    Why the punches? Maybe, as is written in both the News and the Post, Casiraghi wanted to sit at the table where Hock was sitting. Possibly, according to Andrea Peyser, he and his friends taunted Hock, and also drank from their vodka bottles (quelle horreur). Possibly, then, Hock punched Casiraghi in the face, and then began punching his friends (including Stavros Niarchos,Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, and Diego Marroquin). A full-blown bar brawl apparently ensued, in which, Three Stooges-style, an overpriced bottle of Grey Goose was nearly cracked over Hock's head. Hock was arrested, arraigned on misdemeanor charges of assault and harassment, and released. 

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    Hock is talking to the tabloids, and says he feels he "was victimized by several drunk, entitled guys who felt they deserved the prime table with the most beautiful girls,” and also that he fears Casiraghi could now ruin his life: 

    “I am concerned these guys will make my life difficult,” he said. “I imagine they are sitting with their parents strategizing how to destroy me. I am getting married in June. I want to start a family. I don’t want enemies like this.”

    Despite or because of that, he's considering pressing charges, which means, if we're lucky, the tabs may get a few more day's play with this story. (The prince's family, meanwhile, is apparently not very happy they're in the papers in this fashion.)

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    Not unexpectedly, Andrea Peyser comes out staunchly on the side of Hock, largely because she seems to hate ascot-wearing European royals. Similar anti-European sentiment is seen from Hock's lawyer, who told the Daily News, "They were touching the girls, grabbing them the way Europeans feel they can touch whatever woman they want in New York." (A not very veiled reference to DSK?)

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    But American club owners who hang in the Meatpacking District swilling $500 bottles of vodka with model entourages and then punching people, you might say, are just as bad. There is no winner here, not even the Manhattan DA, who is reviewing surveillance video of the incident which we suspect will prove that all of the men involved acted pretty much like idiots. Can defending the "honor of women" start meaning guys just act like grown-ups? That would be nice. 

     

    29 comments

    • SA
      SA  •  3 mths ago
      How many New Yorkers does it take to whip up on three royal tycoons? Umm...evidently just one.
    • mike m
      mike m  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      I'm reminded of a movie line where one person told another that because he had beaten up someone else he would be sued...To which the person who had done the beating replied..."If he sues me I'll beat on him again"....That might not be the proper thing for anyone to do, but it's exactly what needs to be done if the rich #$%$ boys sue.....Enough whoopin and they'll learn their lesson...No I don't believe in spanking kids...full grown adults who think they can do anything they want...Yep
    • change
      change  •  Holmestrand, Norway  •  3 mths ago
      one against 4??....lol...
      • Senorita555
        Senorita555 3 mths ago
        Would LOVE to be the judge in this case.
    • Rueben
      Rueben  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      Jen Doll... Lets see when your daughter or sister needs to be defended... Lets see how grown up you would like their friends to be when some random people start touching them and slobber all over them and refuses to back down. You want to call the police? Lets see how much damage can be done before the police arrives.
    • Dav
      Dav  •  3 mths ago
      Don't worry Hock, he comes back we'll spank his #$%$ again.
    • rick
      rick  •  3 mths ago
      Send the Euro trash down here to the Gulf Coast. After we show em some good ole southern hospitality, we'll send em to our cousins on the west coast who show them some fun in the sun. Then they can go back home and talk about how they got their #$%$ whupped on all 3 coasts.
      • CS
        CS 3 mths ago
        Ha! You only Wish they could help your economy w/ their euro spending$!
      • rick
        rick 3 mths ago
        Hey CS I think were talkin two differnt subjects here.Did you even read my comment.
      • Ti Parham
        Ti Parham 3 mths ago
        Amen, Rick.
    • Dennis
      Dennis  •  Nonthaburi, Thailand  •  3 mths ago
      Truth be told, i love the story, and my hat off to Hock. Its about time someone teaches these euro-trash men some manners. I live in an area where there are ton of euro-trash, they think they can do and say whatever they want, including touching woman.Hock did the right thing, stood up#$%$ slapped these punks, and sent then to the hospital. I'm sure they been lessoned, at least they will think twice about sitting at someones table uninvitied, and drinking there Vodka. Mr Hock, your a mans man, you stood up and told them to move on, when they didn't listen, you did what most wanted to do but didn't, you took action. Send that Euro trash back home, stamp their visa's deported and dont return. Monaco? what do we need them for, don't think they import/export anything that is need in the US. God Bless America, and one man who didn't take #$%$ from some Euro-Trash.
      • non
        non 3 mths ago
        You live in Thailand ,land of the pimps and hos,of course everyone is gonna touch each other.By the way;What are you there for,heh? Like them prostitute young? Lucky you you're hiding behind your computer......#$%$
    • Chi Square
      Chi Square  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      case dismissed, you touch, you risk jaw breaking, that is the unspoken rule of clubbing. go home to mommy if you are a boy in adult world.
      • CS
        CS 3 mths ago
        R u kidding me? If your name gets revealed you're toast. Lets hope the brute has a trust fund, too. U or I would have to legally change our names. This will forever be linked to the' former football star'...with the click of a mouse!
    • Milton Wilson
      Milton Wilson  •  Boca Raton, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      The baby faced prince and his boys should stay out of American night clubs if they can't handle one middle-aged man in a fight. Four against one! Come on man,I'm with Hock on this one.
    • Keith
      Keith  •  3 mths ago
      Okay--everyone involved is being pretty stupid--alcohol will do that--at least it was the good stuff--if you don't hate the French. But you have got to admit this is more interesting than following the DOW's 30 second excursion about 13k.. Tough guy action from the Big Apple. Foreign wimp takes a whipping.
      • Bill
        Bill 3 mths ago
        who cares. money,money and more money power will cause this. imagine if they gave food to the hungry instead of buying a $500.00 bottle of vodk a. the same as bllionariesgiving nothing to feed the poor. they just want more to make them stand out as the center of everything. poor #$%$ bill
    • robert s
      robert s  •  3 mths ago
      For the Great,great, great......great granson of a pirate, he sure is limp wristed. Ran to the cops after loosing a fight he "fell" into..Poor little mommy's boy.
    • John
      John  •  Des Moines, Iowa  •  3 mths ago
      I hate guys who think they can do or say whatever they want to women. I wish Hock had gone a lot farther.
    • John Hardrock
      John Hardrock  •  Atlantic Beach, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      I loved that Hock kicked the prince and his possee's a_$_$. Unfortunately for him the rich effers like the prince are going to make life difficult for Hock. Hock should nail them for theft of the drinks and have the DA prosecute the prince and his friends over that and disorderaly conduct. The smarter thing Hock could do was let the prince throw the first punch and duck that. then pummel him if necessary. I hope that is what happened anyway. Otherwise he should have called the owner's bouncers to take care of it.
    • Patricia S
      Patricia S  •  3 mths ago
      $500 for a bottle of Grey Goose?! Am I in the wrong business, or what!
    • MRD
      MRD  •  3 mths ago
      Sunday punch?
    • DT
      DT  •  3 mths ago
      sorry little prince. you're the LOSER.
    • ron
      ron  •  3 mths ago
      The Euro idiots just got the Royal treatment.
    • Daniel Mackler
      Daniel Mackler  •  3 mths ago
      i'm a born new yorker and have on and off lived in the west village (near the meatpacking district), and i hate that neighborhood -- full of fancy, highbrow idiots and too-expensive places and non-culture.
    • Jack
      Jack  •  3 mths ago
      "royal" myazz...there is no such thing...it's a variety of insanity for people to believe that their inbredlineage is somehow willed by divinity to rule over others...IT'SFRKNINSANE! ...that we yet tolerate it in 2012 indicates that we are, as a species, severely demented.
    • Robert
      Robert  •  Newark, New Jersey  •  3 mths ago
      Why are they ragging on NY Mags, the most colorful version of the story that I read was from the UK's Daily Mail
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