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Court backs 50-year-old millionaire's restraining order against ex
A Manhattan judge approved a millionaire investor's request for a restraining order against his 'volatile and unpredictable' younger girlfriend in Family Court on Friday. The motion to grant former hedge fund manager Brad Zipper, 50, a two-year protective order against 29-year-old former flame Nicole Raef was the finale to a legal ordeal with several dark twists. Though saying both parties had a problem with 'credibility,' Justice Mary Bednar eventually sided with Zipper, who claimed in court his girlfriend was prone to violent fits and once threatened him with a 5-inch blade in the $6million townhouse where they ... (full story)