Manhattan Hedge Fund Bro Breaks Up With His Girlfriend By Hitting Her With A Restraining Order

NY Post – This may be the meanest way to dump your girlfriend. A Manhattan fashion consultant says she returned from a girls weekend in California to her boyfriend’s Hamptons mansion — only to be greeted by a process-server who slapped her with an order of protection. “I was 100 percent shocked,” a heartbroken Nicole Raef told The Post. “I was like, ‘I don’t understand, who breaks up with someone this way?’?” Raef, 28, has been homeless ever since her boyfriend of five years abruptly threw her out of his $1.7 million Long Island summer home and his $6 million Manhattan town house. “Everything was fine when I left,” Raef said, adding that she had to pawn her diamond earrings to afford legal counsel. “We’d been arguing, but we’d worked things out,” the slender brunette said. But court papers filed by her boyfriend, hedge-fund-executive-turned-private-investor Brad Zipper tell a different story. Zipper, 50, former head of Zinc Capital Management, paints his decades-younger ex as an abusive, emotionally unstable stalker. In an application for a temporary restraining order, Zipper says he came home in December 2012 to find his oven on fire and Raef passed out in the guest room. “When she woke up, she was delirious and didn’t even remember driving and getting into an accident with my car that night,” the suit says. Then, in 2014, during a Fourth of July party, Raef “had multiple breakdowns” and threw “several glass bottles directly” at her boyfriend’s head, according to the Manhattan Family Court papers. The last straw came when she allegedly “threw thousands of dollars” of his possessions into the pool at his South Hampton home. The couple enjoyed a jet-set lifestyle, with ski trips to Aspen and vacations in St. Barts, Raef said. They were written up in society pages alongside Zipper’s parents: His dad, Lance Zipper, was head of Nasdaq trading at Kidder, Peabody & Co., and his mom, Barbara, was a Wall Street order clerk. Raef’s attorney, Brett Kimmel, denied Zipper’s claims. “The allegations that are set forth in the pleadings are clearly embellished and to a large degree untrue,” he said. “This is a wealthy man breaking up with his girlfriend and doing it in a really untasteful way.”

Remember the classic Seinfeld analogy that breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine? You cant do it in one push? It takes multiple tries back and forth?

Thats not how things work for Brad Zipper. Shit goes 0-100 real quick for him in the break up department. Have a couple breakdowns, black outs and throw some bottles and you’re dunzo. None of this “I think we should see other people.” No “Its not you its me.” Forget about ” I think I need some space.” Its just straight up BOOYA! Order of protection all up in your face. Don’t come within 200 feet of me. Kick that maniac to the curb.

I love the dichotomy between her version of the relationship and his. Hers is “Well we had our fights. But what couple doesnt fight, right? LOL. We worked things out.” His version is “I can’t have this bitch come within a football field of me or my houses.” I mean maybe Nicole has a point. Maybe she just had a few bad drunk nights and some emotionally vulnerable moments. But you know what rich dudes dont need to put up with? Lightweight crazy chicks. Dude has a 6 million dollar penthouse and a 2 million dollar Hamptons house. Cut the cord on those bitches and bring in a new crop of young gold digging chicks. And when they inevitably go crazy and breakdown and get on your nerves, you ban them from your presence too. The ultimate power move with the break up. Like bitch you are gonna need a telescope if you ever wanna see me again. Dont even look at my facebook. Stay off my instagram. Brad Zipper basically blocked this chick on Twitter but we’re talking about real life.

PS – Brad Zipper is an A PLUS name for a cocky rich dude that looks like a hillbilly