Dori Cooperman is a socialite who got busted for stealing checks, and did some time in rehab in Malibu. Recently arrested in NYC for cocaine and breaking a taxi window
She won’t be blogging about this event.
Out-of-control socialite cabby-basher Dori Cooperman spent a harrowing morning yesterday amid the grime and crooks of Manhattan Criminal Court, where she cleared up an embarrassing cocaine and criminal-mischief case, then went on an expletive-heavy tirade.
“This is a f–king pain in my f–king a–,” Cooperman, 41, announced, nearly wiping out on the snow-swept steps outside the courthouse as she tried to outrun news photographers in snakeskin-trimmed platform stilettos.
“My picture is NOT going to run in The Post!” she growled, pulling her mink bolero jacket over her head and clicking unsteadily across the icy granite on thin, miniskirted legs.
Society blogger Cooperman — daughter of Edwin Cooperman, former chairman of Travelers Bank Group who is known to foot her bills — was in court to clear up a decidedly downmarket incident with a cabby and some police officers from March.
According to the criminal complaint against her, Cooperman had taken a cab from 61st Street and Fifth Avenue to 14th Street and Ninth Avenue and refused to pay the $22.50 fare. Instead, she repeatedly slammed the cab’s passenger door, shattering the glass, the complaint says.
“There’s nothing you can do to me!” cops said she hollered when they arrived at the scene. “Get off me! What are you doing? I’m going to call my father! You don’t know who I am!”
She was charged with possessing a small quantity of cocaine and with criminal mischief for allegedly breaking not only the cab window but the cop-car window, as well.
Yesterday, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Erika Edwards allowed Cooperman to withdraw her previous misdemeanor plea and replead to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct, a violation. The deal had been contingent on Cooperman completing drug rehab and staying out of trouble for the past six months.
By LAURA ITALIANO
Another fare beater, another reason why camera need to install to get a clear shot so TLC can pose all the picture on this site and also run it in the TV screen in the back continousely, let their friends and relative knows about this since there are no law to prevent this .$22.50 can pay a full tank of gas.
The cabbie was very lucky that there were police within shouting distance to deal properly with this generic white girl.
Otherwise, what option would the poor, hard-working driver have, save to endure a savage physical beat-down, drive off like a Mama Luc, or risk being pilloried by the TLC for having the sand to confront this crazy person and losing one’s license in an attempt to dissuade this fevered ego from flipping him the bird and stealing his services.
If there were cameras to record such incidents, and videos of these “socialite” skanks were posted. perhaps the number of upper class twits pulling these scams would be eliminated.
Likewise, if cab drivers were not such sheep: 61st Street and 5th Avenue to 14th and 9th Avenue. Anyone detect a pattern here? Self-entitled creeps with non-aromatic feces. This is why I spent so much time since 2005 driving in Brooklyn, while allowing my fellow hackers the privilege of catering to the local gentry in the carriage trade, upper east side phonies and the EuroTrash who dominate the scene in the aptly named MEAT MARKET. Bon appetite.
I just want to know why the photographers were wearing snakeskin-trimmed stilettos! (grammar, folks)
Well said Chip, I rather pickup hipsters in brooklyn (who tip and dont ask for 50 cents back) than shuttle these twits in the city between 9th and 14th or 27th and 10th.
Cab fare beating is happening continuously every single day to all of us. Security’ cameras are almost everywhere, but ruled out from fleet-garage cabs nearly ten years ago. They can’t afford it.
Miss Cooperman is disgusting. Drivers do not pickup this women if you see her on the street
Going to 14th and 9th, the cocaine capital of the city, and do I even have to guess she demanded he cut through Central park and go all the way down 9th then complain and complain and complain when he got near the Lincoln tunnel? If I had a dime for every east side cocaine addled spoiled trust fund b*tch I drove like this I’d make Bill Gates look like a pauper. I don’t even deal with these types any more. The second they start in, out they go, and I even tell them to file a complaint.