Real Housewives of New York Kelly Bensimon Comes Out Swinging

Thanks to Mamma, author of the fabulous blog, The Kitchen (http://thchaos.blogspot.com/) for passing along the following juicy tidbit reported on Page Six today by Richard Johnson(http://www.nypost.com/) regarding the newest housewife of New York, Kelly Bensimon. It looks like she has an anger management problem together with a mean right hook!

"She's a hissing, claws-out socialite on the hit Bravo reality show "Real Housewives of New York City," but Kelly Bensimon turned into a butt-kicking boyfriend beater in her posh lower-Manhattan coop last week, court records claim.
The 6-foot-tall, 40-year-old former model, horse fancier and one-time marathon runner got into a fight last week with her boyfriend, 30-year-old Nick Stefanov, and clocked him, giving him a black eye and opening a blood-gushing gash on his left cheek, according to the records.
Stefanov fled her apartment on Centre Street after the Tuesday-morning beating and reported the mother of two to cops at the 5th Precinct station.
A source said Bensimon at the time was sporting "a fat lip."
Bensimon surrendered two days later and was charged with misdemeanor third-degree assault. She's due in court March 31.
"We got engaged a couple weeks ago," Stefanov told one friend. "We got into an argument that escalated and escalated. She hauled off and started swinging. She got a lucky punch on my cheekbone and just split it right open. I went down to the police station covered in blood."
Stefanov declined to speak directly to The Post, but told pals he went to his hometown of Pittsburgh because he was embarrassed to be seen in New York with a black eye and cut face.
"If I had done it to her, I would have been put in jail immediately," Stefanov told his friend.
"My injuries are worse than Rihanna's - and Chris Brown was charged with two felonies."
After dating Bensimon for nearly four years, and being a surrogate father to her two daughters, taking them to soccer games and ballet classes, Stefanov isn't ready to end their relationship.
But when he got back to New York a few days later, he learned there was a restraining order that prevents both parties from contacting each other.
"I sent her an e-mail, and the cops called me and said you can't do that," Stefanov told a friend. "It's snowballing into something no one ever intended."
Bensimon's lawyer, Stephen Turano, called the charges "unfounded."
A Bravo spokeswoman said the show "doesn't comment on the private lives of our talent."
An e-mail to her ex-husband, fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon, who is the father of the couple's two daughters, was not returned.
Kelly Bensimon ran the New York City Marathon in 2007, wrote a book on bikinis and was a columnist for Page Six Magazine.
She also modeled for Elle, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar, and was the face for Clarins."