Brooke Shields must think a head-butt spells “chivalry.”
The former “Lipstick Jungle” star is coming to pal Kiefer Sutherland’s defense after he was charged with assaulting designer Jack McCollough in her honor on May 4, just after the Costume Institute gala at the Met.
Shields’ attorney, Gerald Lefcourt, issued a statement yesterday stating, “While at [the after-party at SubMercer,] Brooke was bumped into by Jack McCollough, and Kiefer Sutherland became concerned. Kiefer has always been a gentleman in her company.”
A source familiar with the situation echoed Brooke’s statement, saying that McCollough “may have shoved Kiefer first.”
Meanwhile, Sutherland’s reps are confident that the investigation will prove he “was neither the instigator nor a wrongdoer in this incident.” Police, however, have failed to see Sutherland’s side of the story and have charged him with third-degree assault.
As for the title of “gentleman,” some beg to differ. One of Sutherland’s former co-stars told us how the actor would “go to the bar immediately after he’d finish working. He’d sit there for hours, putting them back. When it was time to go home, he’d be cantankerous and ornery. He was not a pleasant drunk.”
We heard another tale involving a private jet ride back from an event Kiefer attended recently. After sticking to water while in the spotlight, Sutherland boarded the plane and consumed “six alcoholic beverages within a span of 45 minutes,” an insider tells us. “He was so bombed, he got violent and threatened bodily harm to another individual on the plane.” Thankfully, the flight landed before fists flew.
Sutherland — who is on probation in L.A. for five years due to DUI convictions — faces a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail on the fresh charges. He’s due in Manhattan Criminal Court for arraignment on June 9, when the L.A. district attorney will decide whether his allegedly violent behavior constitutes a violation worthy of sending him to jail.
Meanwhile, the actor is expected at an Emmy Awards panel in L.A., and back in NYC next week. “Kiefer will continue everything he was planning on,” his rep told us. “He’s going back to work.”
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