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locked the door of the sec-
ond-floor unit and started a
blaze, police said.
Officers were eventually
able to get inside and take
the alleged arsonist into
custody.
He was transported to a
hospital and charges against
him were pending, the
NYPD spokeswoman said.
Seven people, including
two cops, were injured and
taken to Harlem Hospital
and Mount Sinai Morning-
side, the FDNY said.
Tamar LapinA man allegedly lit what
turned into a massive a fire
inside an East Harlem
apartment late Saturday aft-
ernoon — injuring several
people — after cops showed
up to enforce a restraining
order, authorities said.
The NYPD got a call
about a person violating an
order of protection at the
six-story building at East
135th Street and Fifth
Avenue at around 5:30 p.m.,
a police spokeswoman said.
When cops arrived, the
man, who did not live there,‘Firebug’ arrested
By MERLE GINSBERG and MICHAEL KAPLANT
HE past month has seen a shockingly sad, raw
tale played out on Paulina Porizkova’s Instagram
account.
“Beginning the process of letting go of things
— letting go of thirty years — letting go of every-
thing I’ve known — everything that made me feel safe,”
she wrote on Sept. 1. The accompanying photograph
showed her clutching clothing to her face, as if inhaling
memories.
“Last two days in my house. It’s empty, cold and dirty,”
the 55-year-old posted on Oct. 16, along with a photo of
herself crouched in a large living room, nearly bare but
for a few boxes. “I’ve never cried as much as I have in the
last year.”
It was on Sept. 15, 2019, that the former supermodel
came home to the $10 million Gramercy Park town-
house she shared with her husband, Cars singer Ric Oc-
asek, and found him dead from heart disease and pulmo-
nary emphysema. The 75-year-old rocker had recently
undergone surgery, but his passing was still a shock.
Even more shocking: The very next day, Porizkova dis-
covered that he had rewritten his will just weeks before
— and she had been cut out and would have to give up
her home.
“I have made no provision for my wife... as we are in
the process of divorcing. Even if I should die before our
divorce is final... Paulina is not entitled to any elective
share... because she has abandoned me,” Ocasek wrote
in his will.
The couple had announced their split in May 2018,
with Porizkova revealing that it had occurred the year
before — although they still lived together and sup-
ported each other right up until his death. “The photos
of our happy family are in fact, happy family photos;
we are just no longer a couple,” she wrote on Insta-
gram, as the two continued to be seen in public with
their sons Jonathan, now 26 and who Porizkova has
said is a video game designer, and 22-year-old Oliver,
who is reportedly a student.
But, insiders say, Ocasek was not as happy as
Porizkova wanted to portray.
“Ric and Paulina really loved each other, but
[when he got sick] he seemed to get tired — of
everything,” said a former model and Porizkova
pal who lives in LA. “She didn’t know if he’d
stopped loving her or just stopped loving life. He
felt emotionally dead to her.”
Other insiders agree with that assessment.
“Who abandoned who is up to whom you talk
to,” said a model who’s been friends with Poriz-
kova since their early New York days. “He clearly
felt she was abandoning him at a trying time in his
life — even though she was the one helping him
most when he got sick. And she felt like he’d just
stopped caring about the marriage — another form
of abandonment.”Paulina bares her
FAMILY TIES: After meeting on the set of The Cars’ “Drive”
video in 1984, Porizkova and Ocasek married and had sons
Jonathan (from far left) and Oliver, seen here in 2016.BYE BYE
LOVE: Although
Ric Ocasek and
Paulina
Porizkova were
still married —
and lived together
— at the time of
his death on
Sept. 15, 2019,
the rocker cut the
model out of his
will, shocking
their family.By LAuRA ItALIANoRapper Offset live -
streamed himself being
pulled over by Beverly Hills
cops and handcuffed after
he was accused of waving a
gun at people at a Trump
rally.
But ultimately the police
’fessed up to having grab-
bed the wrong guy.
“There have been media
reports that entertainer Off-
set was arrested,” police
said. “Those reports are in-
accurate.”
“I’m a f--king celebrity, do
you know who I am?” the
rapper can be heard telling
cops in the live stream.“I’m Offset from Migos,”
he insisted, referring to his
hip-hop trio.
“There’s 25,000 people on
my live stream,” he said of
the Instagram audience
watching along.
Other video from the
scene shows Offset being
led away in handcuffs as a
crowd of people, at least
one of them holding a
Trump flag, watch with
their cellphones aimed to-
ward the action.
A 20-year-old named
Marcelo Almanzar was later
charged with carrying a
concealed weapon and
carry ing a loaded firearm in
public, the police said.But not right guy
Rapper’s
livestream
is a ‘bust’
REALITY ShOw: Here’s the scene in Beverly Hills on
Saturday after rapper Offset was mistakenly pulled over.APEX / MEGA