New York Post police bureau chief fired over affair with Gabi Grecko

IT DOESN’T matter which hemisphere she’s in, flamboyant socialite Gabi Grecko is a magnet for scandal.

The model turned rapper, 28, who is famous for her union with Australian medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, 75, is back in the headlines after she was linked to the sacking of a senior US journalist.

New York Post police bureau chief Shawn Cohen, 48, was fired last Thursday after admitting he had a brief affair with Grecko while reporting on her role as star witness in major federal police bribery case.

Prosecutors allege Grecko was hired by Brooklyn businessman Jeremy Reichberg to provide sexual entertainment to senior NYPD officers aboard a Vegas-bound private jet in 2013 in order to curry favour with the department.

Grecko recounted the sordid in-flight activities in excruciating detail during an exclusive interview with Cohen for a front-page story published in June 2016.

At the time, Grecko had been working as a prostitute following her highly publicised split from Edelsten, who is more than 40 years her senior, but said she found the aeroplane job so degrading she turned her back on the industry for good.

The 28-year-old, who recently reunited with Edelsten, told Cohen that Reichberg paid her to dress as a “sexy stewardess” and perform mile-high sex acts with officers including retired NYPD deputy inspector James Grant and former NYPD detective Michael Milici.

“I didn’t think it would be as extreme as it was, but then because I obviously couldn’t get off the plane, I had to do what they were telling me,” Grecko told Cohen for the story.

“More than one would try to get my attention at once. They were really creepy and very rude and offensive.”

Once in Vegas the group made their way to the MGM Grand Hotel where they watched the Super Bowl and partied with several other prostitutes in two penthouse suites.

In exchange for the trip and other expensive gifts, Reichberg got a “private police force” he and his mates could rely on, prosecutors allege.

Cohen admitted to a brief affair with Grecko in a statement emailed to rival paperThe New York Daily News last Friday.

The Daily News confronted Cohen a day after he was sacked without public explanation.

“Following the publication of a news article I wrote about a witness in an investigation, we had a brief personal relationship,” Cohen said in his statement.

“As a journalist, I certainly appreciate how this looks given her past profession and the fact I’d written about her, but the reality is quite innocent.

“That said, I should have exercised better judgment because of the particular circumstances involved here and because I continued to cover related topics.”

Grecko will be the star witness in the trial of Grant and Reichberg which has been set down for later this month.

Both men deny any wrongdoing.

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