Hawaiian Tropic Zone nightclub owner pleads guilty!

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Bouncer Chronicles reports that former Hawaiian Tropic Zone owner Adam Hock pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct last week for a 2012 Meatpacking District bar brawl.

Hock had been accused of leaving 24 year-old Prince Pierre Casiraghi of Monaco with a broken jaw at Double Seven nightclub.  At the time Hock said he acted in self-defense. “I felt I had to defend the honor of the women I was with,” Hock told the New York Daily News.

 I feel I was victimized by several drunk, entitled guys who felt they deserved the prime table with the most beautiful girls,” he added to the New York Post. Under the plea deal Hock must attend twelve sessions of anger management and serve ten days of community service.

The brawl not only involved Casiraghi who is the son of the late Grace Kelly but a bevy of models were caught in the center of the altercation. Some of Hock’s friends were also involved including Stavros Niarchos III (a shipping heir), Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld  a New York art dealer and godson to photographer Mario Testino) and Diego Marroquin (a Manhattan socialite).

Among those sitting at Hock’s table were catwalk models Natasha Poly, Valentina Zalyaeva, Anja Rubik and club owner Jeffery Jah

 



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Having bounced in the best New York City clubs for twenty five years, I have met some of the most colorful and interesting characters in the business. It was my passion to share my story as well as theirs.

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